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AARON HENRY REIGLE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 20, 1943 – February 13, 1968
Service recordAaron Henry Reigle, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 24
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 20, 1943
- Home of record
- Hershey, Pennsylvania (Dauphin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 24
- HARRY FRANK EDWARD PEEPLESSergeant · February 13, 1968
- GARY CRAIG PORTPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
- VERNON POST JRLance Corporal · February 13, 1968
- STEVEN EDWARD REICHERTPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EUGENE MICHAEL CAMPIONSergeant · Panel 39E, Line 18
- JOSEPH D DAUGHTON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 19
- GARY CRAIG PORTPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 24
From Hershey
- MICHAEL LUKE LANGERIOLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- HAROLD LEE ECKERT JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 18, 1969
- WILLIAM CONRAD WEISS JRSpecialist Four · May 6, 1970
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.