Douglas Kuechler
Kentucky Post, Saturday, 23 September 1950, page 3
Pfc. Douglas Kuechler, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kuechler, 28 18th street, South Newport, was hit by shrapnel while storming a hill in battle in Korea, according to a letter he wrote his parents. Pfc. Kuechler who is with the Eighth Cavalry, stated that he is confined in a hospital 60 miles behind the battlefront.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 11 October 1950, page 2
A Newport serviceman was listed as killed in action and another as wounded by the Department of Defense Tuesday. Pfc. Douglas S Kuechler, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kuechler, 28 18th street, was killed in action in Korea with the Third Cavalry Sep 20. He had been in Korea since Sept 2.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 27 October 1950, page 11
Solemn Requiem High Mass for Pfc. Douglas S Kuechler, who was killed in action in Korea on Sept 20, will be sun at 9 am Saturday at St Vincent de Paul Church, Newport. Pfc. Kuechler, son of Mrs. Ralph Kuechler, 28 18th street, South Newport, was a member of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment. He was killed after returning to action when he had recovered from being wounded earlier in the campaign. He was 19. Besides his parents he leaves two brothers, Tim and Tom; a sister Mary R.