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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Edward Reese.

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DENNIS EDWARD REESE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 24, 1950 – October 26, 1970

Service record

Dennis Edward Reese, of Wilmington, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 26, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 24

Position of Panel 6W 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
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
July 24, 1950
Home of record
Wilmington, North Carolina (New Hanover County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 26, 1970
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1970; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 24

Same unit, same day

From Wilmington

All 24 names from Wilmington →

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.