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KENNETH RAY KEEFER
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 27, 1947 – June 7, 1967
Service recordKenneth Ray Keefer, of Streetsboro, Ohio, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 7, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 68
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- April 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Streetsboro, Ohio (Portage County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1967; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 68
- THOMAS MICHAEL HEALYPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- JESSE LEWIS JOHNSONPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- KENNETH MICHEAL JOHNSONPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- PHILLIP ANDREN VANDEUSENPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
From Streetsboro
- ROBERT LYLE STEBNER JRPrivate First Class · September 2, 1967
- ALBERT ALOYSIUS GILLESPIEPrivate · May 19, 1968
- DENVER JOSEPH BERKHEIMERLance Corporal · May 22, 1968
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.