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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Lee Koehler.

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RONALD LEE KOEHLER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

November 2, 1945 – December 9, 1965

Service record

Ronald Lee Koehler, of Vernon Center, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 9, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 4E · Line 3

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
November 2, 1945
Home of record
Vernon Center, Minnesota (Blue Earth County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 9, 1965
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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17 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1965; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 4E, Line 3

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.