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WILLIAM PATRICK KELLY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 23, 1947 – April 5, 1967
Service recordWilliam Patrick Kelly, of Windsor, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 5, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 105
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Windsor, Missouri (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 105
- ALAN JAMES DEANCaptain · April 5, 1967
- KENNETH MARTIN KESSINGERCorporal · April 5, 1967
- ALFRED GEORGE LIRAPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- EDDIE LESTER MARSHALLStaff Sergeant · April 5, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JIMMIE LOUIS ELLERBEPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 103
From Windsor
- WILLIAM THOMAS CRAWFORDAirman First Class · May 16, 1965
- JAMES CLEVELAND TULLISSergeant · July 2, 1968
- ROY BRADLEY BOYDSpecialist Four · March 29, 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.