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TODD DUANE KELSO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 22, 1946 – June 10, 1968
Service recordTodd Duane Kelso, of Sunburst, Montana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 20
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
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Sunburst, Montana (Toole County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 10, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 20
- LARRY T MILLERPrivate First Class · June 10, 1968
- DAVID ZOHLEEH NARAMORE JRSpecialist Four · June 10, 1968
- LAWRENCE OLIVER ROSEPrivate First Class · June 10, 1968
- JIMMY HERMAN SMITHLance Corporal · June 10, 1968
From Sunburst
- JAMES RAYMOND GOREPetty Officer Third Class · June 23, 1970
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.