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CHARLES RICHARD REFF
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 30, 1949 – August 18, 1968
Service recordCharles Richard Reff, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 47
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 47
- BRUCE WILLIAM POULSONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- BILLY DUANE ROYPetty Officer Third Class · August 18, 1968
- JOHN SANEDALance Corporal · August 18, 1968
- KENNETH FRANCIS SCHWAGELAirman First Class · August 18, 1968
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
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.