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WILLIAM HOWARD KEELER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 22, 1949 – March 24, 1969
Service recordWilliam Howard Keeler, of Patterson, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 27
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 31 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- June 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Patterson, New York (Putnam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 27
- JOHN DAVID HAMILTON JRPrivate First Class · March 24, 1969
- MONTY GILBERT LACKASSergeant · March 24, 1969
- THOMAS LEE LOANPrivate First Class · March 24, 1969
- ROBERT THOMAS MANNINGPrivate First Class · March 24, 1969
From Patterson
- EDWARD IRWIN STARRCaptain · December 30, 1966
- JAMES CLAIR FOSTERCorporal · February 19, 1968
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.