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DENNIS WAYNE REED
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 22, 1947 – April 9, 1968
Service recordDennis Wayne Reed, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 5
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- December 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 5
- JOSEPH RONALD PAULETTESergeant · April 9, 1968
- EMERY NORMAN POITROWStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1968
- CHARLIE RAINEYSergeant · April 9, 1968
- JACK RAYMOND REINKESpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SALVATORE AGRI JRPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 56
- THOMAS FRANCIS DAZEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 57
- EDWARD ARTHUR ZAGERSecond Lieutenant · Panel 49E, Line 7
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.