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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 Darrell Lee Reid.

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DARRELL LEE REID

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 14, 1946 – August 20, 1967

Service record

Darrell Lee Reid, of Wadsworth, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 21

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
November 14, 1946
Home of record
Wadsworth, Ohio (Medina County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 20, 1967
Age
20
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1967; five of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Wadsworth

All 13 names from Wadsworth →

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.