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KEITH DARRELL HEFFNER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 29, 1952 – March 2, 1971
Service recordKeith Darrell Heffner, of Ford City, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 17
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
- Aircraft Powerplant Repairer (68B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 29, 1952
- Home of record
- Ford City, Pennsylvania (Armstrong County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 17
- DELAND DWIGHT ZUBKEStaff Sergeant · March 1, 1971
- HERBERT EUGENE MULKEY JRPrivate First Class · March 2, 1971
- RICHARD DAVID SALDANASpecialist Four · March 2, 1971
- RICHARD LEE STOCKETTSergeant · March 2, 1971
From Ford City
- WILLIAM DENNI BREIGHTMYERPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- CLAIR BERNARD BUTZSergeant First Class · 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.