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WALTER MARTIN KEENE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 8, 1948 – January 11, 1968
Service recordWalter Martin Keene, of Millington, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 11, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 29
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Millington, Michigan (Tuscola County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 29
- PATRICK LINDSEY HALLPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- MARVIN HEAD JRSpecialist Four · January 11, 1968
- ROY BENJAMIN KEITHSeaman · January 11, 1968
- LARRY FRANK KUJAWASpecialist Four · January 11, 1968
From Millington
- ANDREW CHARLES CONRAD JRSpecialist Five · August 9, 1967
- RICHARD JAMES WAGERConstructionman · August 28, 1967
- DONALD ALLEN HALL JRSergeant · September 26, 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.