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LARRY LEE KEENER
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 5, 1943 – February 24, 1966
Service recordLarry Lee Keener, of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 24, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 73
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania (Berks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 24, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- 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 February 24, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 73
- GEORGE ALBERT BELL JRPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- JOE CHARLES LILE IISpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- ROBERT KINLOCH LOWESpecialist Five · February 24, 1966
- ROBERT DELL MERRELLSpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- GEORGE ALLEN MORGANPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
From Sinking Spring
- KENT MARTIN ZERRSpecialist Five · March 6, 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.