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FREDDIE RAY KELLEY
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
September 25, 1946 – September 16, 1968
Service recordFreddie Ray Kelley, of Tullahoma, Tennessee, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 6
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- September 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Tullahoma, Tennessee (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 16, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 6
- RODNEY BRADFORDCorporal · September 16, 1968
- RALPH WARREN KUCHCINSKIPrivate First Class · September 16, 1968
- LOWELL EUGENE LUNZMANNSergeant · September 16, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL LYONSCorporal · September 16, 1968
From Tullahoma
- RANDY NEAL WARDSpecialist Four · January 27, 1968
- TIMOTHY LANE WORTHFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- KENNETH LEE KIRKESSecond Lieutenant · February 9, 1968
- HOMER B BELL JRPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- WALTER DANIEL SMITHSpecialist Five · March 30, 1969
- GERALD DOUGLAS ANTHONYPrivate First Class · May 2, 1969
- TERRILL EDWARD BRADFORDSpecialist Five · April 29, 1971
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.