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JAMES KELLY KEITH III
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 31, 1948 – March 7, 1967
Service recordJames Kelly Keith III, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 35
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Chattanooga, Tennessee (Hamilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 35
- DEAN FRANKLIN FOXSpecialist Four · March 7, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES HAINES JRChief Petty Officer · March 7, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD KASPERPetty Officer Third Class · March 7, 1967
- CHARLES F KENNEDYSergeant · March 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BENNIE LEE CROSSSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 34
- CHARLES F KENNEDYSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 35
From Chattanooga
- JIMMY RICHARD GRIFFINSergeant · March 22, 1963
- GEORGE WILLIS MARTINSergeant First Class · October 11, 1964
- ARTHUR EUGENE NORMANAirman Second Class · January 16, 1965
- GLENN HOWELL KELLEYSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- JAMES T GRAYSergeant · April 24, 1965
- VIRGIL KIRKLAND JRSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- KENNETH LEON STANCILChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 28, 1965
- ELIJAH GOAR TOLLETT JRMajor · January 12, 1966
- RAPHNELL J MERONEYSergeant · January 29, 1966
- BILLY BROWN DAYPrivate · February 22, 1966
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.