John Dewey Killen III

Vietnam War
Unit3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
RankLance Corporal U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service FromDes Moines Iowa
Date of DeathJune 30 1967
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes

The remains of Marine Corps Capt. John A. House, II; Lance Cpl. John D. Killen, III; and Cpl. Glyn L. Runnels, Jr., have been accounted for in 2017 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). House was assigned to HHM-265 Marine Aircraft Group 16, and Killen and Runnels were assigned to Company A, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, when their aircraft crashed in Vietnam, June 30, 1967. Two additional service members were previously identified from this crash, Marine Lance Cpl. Merlin R. Allen and Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Michael B. Judd. Their remains were returned to their families for burial with full military honors. His name is permanently engraved in the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.