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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Vince Robert Kiselewski.

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VINCE ROBERT KISELEWSKI

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

October 9, 1947 – March 26, 1971

Service record

Vince Robert Kiselewski, of Waltonville, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 26, 1971, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 4W · Line 80

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Electrician's Mate (EM)
Born
October 9, 1947
Home of record
Waltonville, Illinois (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 26, 1971
Age
23
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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16 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1971; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 4W, Line 80

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.