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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel George Reid.

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DANIEL GEORGE REID

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

June 2, 1935 – June 11, 1969

Service record

Daniel George Reid, of Port Huron, Michigan, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 26

Position of Panel 22W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 2, 1935
Home of record
Port Huron, Michigan (St Clair County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1969
Age
34
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

64 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

From Port Huron

All 24 names from Port Huron →

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.