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GEORGE LEE KELLAM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 24, 1948 – February 5, 1969
Service recordGeorge Lee Kellam, of Daugherty, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 5, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Daugherty, Virginia (Accomack County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 5, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date February 5, 1969; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 119 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 65
- RODNEY HERSCHEL GOTTStaff Sergeant · February 5, 1969
- CHESTER JON KMITSpecialist Four · February 5, 1969
- HOMER MORGAN LYNN JRMajor · February 5, 1969
- BENJAMIN MALDONADO-AGUILARSpecialist Four · February 5, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN WAYNE SPAFFORDSpecialist Four · Panel 33W, Line 69
- CARL JOSEPH TANZOLA JRSpecialist Four · Panel 33W, Line 70
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.