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KELTON RENA TURNER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 15, 1956 – May 15, 1975
Service recordKelton Rena Turner, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 15, 1975, in Cambodia, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 130
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- G CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- July 15, 1956
- Home of record
- Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1975
- Age
- 18
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Incident
- Uss Mayaguez Capture
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1975. In May 1975, 42 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “G CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Mayaguez incident was under way. After Khmer Rouge forces seized the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez in May 1975, Marines assaulted Koh Tang island; their names are the last on the Wall.
Also on Panel 1W, Line 130
- GREGORY SCOTT COPENHAVERLance Corporal · May 15, 1975
- BERNARD GAUSE JRPetty Officer First Class · May 15, 1975
- GARY LEE HALLPrivate First Class · May 15, 1975
- JOSEPH N HARGROVELance Corporal · May 15, 1975
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL ANDREW BENEDETTPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 129
- LYNN BLESSINGPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 129
- ANTONIO RAMOS SANDOVALPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 129
- GREGORY SCOTT COPENHAVERLance Corporal · Panel 1W, Line 130
- JAMES JOSEPH JACQUESPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 131
- ASHTON NATHANIEL LONEYLance Corporal · Panel 1W, Line 131
- JAMES RICKEY MAXWELLPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 131
- WALTER BOYDPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 132
- RICHARD WILLIAM RIVENBURGHPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 132
From Los Angeles
- JAMES WILLIAM MCNALLYTechnical Sergeant · October 23, 1963
- FRANK JOHN HOLGUINPrivate First Class · March 15, 1964
- RICHARD DEAN GOSSCaptain · August 29, 1964
- JOHN LOWERY MCCOYSergeant First Class · September 26, 1964
- JAMES HENRY MCLEANMaster Sergeant · February 9, 1965
- DWIGHT GLENN FRAKESChief Petty Officer · February 24, 1965
- AARON HAROLD WESTERNPrivate First Class · June 16, 1965
- EDWARD JAMES ANDERSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- MAURICE RICHARD HILLPrivate · June 29, 1965
- WILLIAM WARREN HAILLieutenant Colonel · August 2, 1965
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.