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RAYMOND E KELLER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 8, 1947 – April 10, 1968
Service recordRaymond E Keller JR, of Petersburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Petersburg, Pennsylvania (Huntingdon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 11
- CHIP RUSSELL HARRISONPrivate · April 10, 1968
- KIMMEY DEAN HOBBSSpecialist Four · April 10, 1968
- DENNIS FOX HUGHESPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- WAYNE CLIFFORD JESTERPrivate · April 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES ANTHONY MAJERSergeant · Panel 49E, Line 13
- ROBERT JOSEPH SOWINSKICorporal · Panel 49E, Line 16
- JESSE LAVERN WILLOUGHBYPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 17
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.