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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kelly Stuart Morris.

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KELLY STUART MORRIS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 18, 1949 – July 26, 1969

Service record

Kelly Stuart Morris, of Arcata, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 26, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 51

Position of Panel 20W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Surveillance Radar Repairer (35C)
Born
February 18, 1949
Home of record
Arcata, California (Humboldt County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 26, 1969
Age
20
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1969; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 51

From Arcata

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.