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DOUGLAS BERNARD KEHOE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 23, 1943 – December 12, 1968
Service recordDouglas Bernard Kehoe, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 11
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 23, 1943
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 11
- HARRY CLINTON DORSETTCorporal · December 12, 1968
- STANLEY CARL FULLERSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- JOHNNY KINGSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- JOE EARL LADELLSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH QUINNSergeant · September 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY KINGSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 11
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.