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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Julian Stanley Kee JR.

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JULIAN STANLEY KEE JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 21, 1932 – August 31, 1968

Service record

Julian Stanley Kee JR, of Miami, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45W · Line 14

Position of Panel 45W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Radio Repairer (31E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
July 21, 1932
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 31, 1968
Age
36
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45W, Line 14

Same unit, same day

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.