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HARLAN CYRUS RIEHL
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 12, 1943 – March 27, 1966
Service recordHarlan Cyrus Riehl, of Spring Valley, Minnesota, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 27, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 54
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- December 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Spring Valley, Minnesota (Fillmore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1966; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 54
- ROBERT BRUCE KNUTSONPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
- ROGER DALE REEDPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
- GEORGE THOMAS REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
From Spring Valley
- THELMER ARTHUR RUDLONGPrivate First Class · December 5, 1967
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.