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JOHN EARLE KLETT
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
July 5, 1947 – September 21, 1967
Service recordJohn Earle Klett, of Birmingham, Michigan, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 21, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 104
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
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- July 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Birmingham, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1967; 44 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 104
- ALBERT ARTHUR KEDROSKI JRCorporal · September 21, 1967
- WILLIAM JAMES KILDAREPrivate First Class · September 21, 1967
- RONALD REED KINGCorporal · September 21, 1967
- GEORGE EUGENE LALANDLieutenant Colonel · September 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD EUGENE SUTHERLANDHospitalman · Panel 26E, Line 108
From Birmingham
- SAMUEL GIZZI ORLANDOHospitalman Apprentice · March 4, 1966
- DAIN W MILLIMANMajor · November 10, 1966
- JOHN HENRY BOUDREAUCorporal · May 8, 1967
- THOMAS MILTON THATCHERLance Corporal · September 24, 1967
- DAVID LOUIS PERKETTPrivate First Class · January 16, 1968
- TERENCE RAYMOND ROACH JRSecond Lieutenant · February 8, 1968
- DONALD EDWARD ANGERMANPrivate First Class · April 27, 1968
- DAVID TERRENCE JUDDSergeant · August 23, 1968
- LARRY STEVEN WEILFirst Lieutenant · May 14, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER HUGH MARKEYSecond Lieutenant · January 6, 1970
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.