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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold Erich Reid.

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HAROLD ERICH REID

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 27, 1946 – September 13, 1967

Service record

Harold Erich Reid, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on September 13, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 67

Position of Panel 26E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
December 27, 1946
Home of record
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of loss
September 13, 1967
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Unknown
First reported
Missing in action

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 26E, Line 67

From Salt Lake City

All 123 names from Salt Lake City →

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.