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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harry William Kleber.

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HARRY WILLIAM KLEBER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 30, 1946 – March 6, 1967

Service record

Harry William Kleber, of Miami, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 29

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
147 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP
Born
August 30, 1946
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 29

From Miami

All 179 names from Miami →

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.