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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Keith Allen McEnany.

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KEITH ALLEN MCENANY

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

July 18, 1946 – October 24, 1967

Service record

Keith Allen McEnany, of Dunedin, Florida, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 24, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 61

Position of Panel 28E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Equipment Operator (EO)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO NMCB 128 3 NC BDE
Born
July 18, 1946
Home of record
Dunedin, Florida (Pinellas County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 24, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 61

From Dunedin

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.