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THEODORE K KALEIKINI JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 31, 1945 – January 18, 1968
Service recordTheodore K Kaleikini JR, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 18, 1968, in Kien Phong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 31, 1945
- Home of record
- Levittown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Phong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Phong Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 34E, Line 69
- JAMES ARTHUR JOHANSENWarrant Officer 1 · January 18, 1968
- THEODORE FRED JOHNSONCorporal · January 18, 1968
- JOHN STANLEY KMIECPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- THEODORE OBRIENPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GORDON DOUGLAS YNTEMASergeant · Panel 34E, Line 73
From Levittown
- JOSEPH PAUL YATSKO JRFirst Lieutenant · December 18, 1965
- JOHN WILLIAM THOMASSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
- ALAN ROBERT SCHULTZLance Corporal · August 11, 1967
- PATRICK ROBERT ROYPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- DENNIS THOMAS CUNNANEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- STEVEN MICHAEL BEZENSKISpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- STANLEY R STELLMACH JRSergeant · April 14, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS DEENY IIIPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- ARTHUR MICHAEL DAYSpecialist Five · May 8, 1969
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.