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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold Junior Koller.

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HAROLD JUNIOR KOLLER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 25, 1944 – September 2, 1966

Service record

Harold Junior Koller, of Chester, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 62

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
September 25, 1944
Home of record
Chester, Pennsylvania (Delaware County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 2, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 62

From Chester

All 28 names from Chester →

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.