Wendell Richard Keller

In LZ, LAOS
Hostile, died while missing, FIXED WING - PILOT
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND

DPAA. Buried in a group plot at Arlington Cemetery.

On September 6, 2012, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Colonel Wendell Richard Keller, missing from the Vietnam War.
 
Colonel Keller entered the U.S. Air Force from Arkansas and was a member of the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron. On March 1, 1969, he piloted an F-4D Phantom II (tail number unknown) a nighttime strike mission against enemy targets in Khammouan Province, Laos. The aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed, killing both men; Col Keller's remains were not recovered at that time due to a heavy enemy presence in the area. However, between 1994 and 2011, several joint U.S./Laotian investigations were conducted at the crash site in Khammouan Province and recovered human remains and other material evidence. Modern forensic techniques were able to identify Col Keller among the remains.
 
Colonel Keller is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Colonel Keller was lost with Captain Virgil Kersh Meroney III of Arkansas who has also been accounted for.