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KEITH DALE MEHAFFEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 16, 1948 – October 21, 1969
Service recordKeith Dale Mehaffey, of Waynesville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 21, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 102
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- October 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Waynesville, North Carolina (Haywood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 102
- BUDDY EUGENE HENDERLIGHTSpecialist Four · October 21, 1969
- ROBERT KENNEDY JRSergeant · October 21, 1969
- TIMOTHY ELTON LARMONPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
- MARK JOSEPH PREISPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
From Waynesville
- FLOYD MILTON FRAZIERTechnical Sergeant · February 11, 1962
- DAVID CHAPPELL BROWNFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- WAYNE EDWARD SEXTONSpecialist Four · April 27, 1968
- ALFRED HIGHTOWER JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1968
- FRED ALLEN MOODYSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- FREDRICK MERVYN HALLCaptain · April 12, 1969
- MICHAEL FRANK DAVISSergeant · June 12, 1969
- CARL BRUCE RAYPrivate First Class · December 3, 1969
- DAVID WAYNE FRADYSpecialist Four · August 22, 1971
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.