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LARRY DEAN KEELER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 25, 1948 – December 15, 1969
Service recordLarry Dean Keeler, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 15, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 59
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- May 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Ponca City, Oklahoma (Kay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 15, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 59
- BILLY BOB LEYERLEPrivate First Class · December 15, 1969
- EDWARD LOPEZPrivate First Class · December 15, 1969
- JAMES PATRICK NUGENTPrivate First Class · December 15, 1969
- DARYL WAYNE PATRICKSpecialist Four · December 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM STEPHEN BARRITTSpecialist Four · Panel 15W, Line 57
- DEE AARON HYDENChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 15W, Line 58
- DONALD RAY ROSESpecialist Five · Panel 15W, Line 60
- DON EUGENE STOCKTON JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 15W, Line 60
From Ponca City
- WILLIAM DONALD REYNOLDSCaptain · March 28, 1965
- CLARENCE GENE FORMANPrivate First Class · June 18, 1966
- VERN LEE PRAYSergeant · January 9, 1967
- JAMES HARRELL FOWLERPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JAMES JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · May 21, 1967
- EDGAR ALLEN CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- FREDERICK EUGENE ROUSESpecialist Four · September 28, 1968
- LEWIS EARL COXCorporal · May 19, 1970
- ELROY FREDERICK WELLSStaff Sergeant · December 27, 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.