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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 Kenneth Ray Irelan.

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KENNETH RAY IRELAN

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

April 17, 1938 – September 16, 1965

Service record

Kenneth Ray Irelan, of Asbury, Missouri, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 16, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 2E · Line 84

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Born
April 17, 1938
Home of record
Asbury, Missouri (Jasper County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 16, 1965
Age
27
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

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Seven names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1965; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1965, 150 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 2E, Line 84

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.