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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Welker Reinhardt.

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ARTHUR WELKER REINHARDT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 10, 1946 – September 2, 1967

Service record

Arthur Welker Reinhardt, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 85

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
669 TRANS CO 1 LOG CMD
Born
November 10, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 2, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1967; eight of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “669 TRANS CO 1 LOG CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 85

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.