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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Robert Kelm.

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LARRY ROBERT KELM

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 30, 1944 – August 25, 1966

Service record

Larry Robert Kelm, of Owatonna, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 40

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 30, 1944
Home of record
Owatonna, Minnesota (Steele County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 25, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

55 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 40

Same unit, same day

From Owatonna

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.