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GENE CALVIN REID
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 3, 1948 – February 28, 1968
Service recordGene Calvin Reid, of Lenoir, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 1
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Lenoir, North Carolina (Caldwell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968; four of them were lost in Long An Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
He died in Long An Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42E, Line 1
- JOHN ALFRED THOTLANDLance Corporal · February 28, 1968
- JIMMIE LESTER TODDMaster Sergeant · February 28, 1968
- WILLIAM OLIVER TURNERCorporal · February 28, 1968
- WALTER WILBER VAILTechnical Sergeant · February 28, 1968
- ROBERT EARL WESLEYStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WILLIAM LAUZONSpecialist Four · Panel 41E, Line 68
- JAMES ERNEST THOMASSergeant First Class · Panel 41E, Line 74
From Lenoir
- CANEY GREENSpecialist Four · August 15, 1966
- WALTER J SPAINHOUR JRFirst Lieutenant · September 15, 1966
- MICHAEL H PENNELLPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- EDWARD EUGENE GREENEStaff Sergeant · January 2, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD FERGUSONPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- THEODORE R CONLEY JRLance Corporal · November 29, 1968
- RICHARD COLON WATSONPrivate First Class · August 2, 1969
- GEORGE FRANKLIN MCGEECorporal · September 11, 1969
- JAMES RICHARD BOWERS JRSergeant · March 7, 1970
- WILLIAM EUGENE AUSTINSergeant · July 31, 1970
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.