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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leonard Keller.

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LEONARD KELLER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 24, 1950 – March 10, 1970

Service record

Leonard Keller, of Bayonne, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 104

Position of Panel 13W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 24, 1950
Home of record
Bayonne, New Jersey (Hudson County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1970
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1970; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 104

Same unit, same day

From Bayonne

All 29 names from Bayonne →

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.