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HOMER LEE REAVES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 26, 1943 – January 15, 1967
Service recordHomer Lee Reaves, of Pomona, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 15, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 38
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 26, 1943
- Home of record
- Pomona, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 38
- JOHN JOSEPH RODGERSPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD SMITHPlatoon Sergeant · January 15, 1967
- JERRY WAYNE SPROUSEPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- ROBERT GREER STRANGEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 15, 1967
From Pomona
- RICHARD CHRISTIAN SATHERLieutenant (junior grade) · August 5, 1964
- JOHN WESLEY COBBPrivate First Class · February 8, 1966
- RAYMOND CHARLES MARTINSergeant · March 18, 1966
- DOUGLAS EARL MURRAYSergeant · November 5, 1966
- DONALD HENRY ASIREColonel · December 8, 1966
- RONALD JEROME HENRYLance Corporal · April 27, 1967
- FREDERICK JOHN FORTNERLieutenant Commander · October 17, 1967
- MARVIN HALL TERRYPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- THOMAS ANTHONY ECKLSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- RICHARD ROSS TOLETTESecond Lieutenant · July 25, 1968
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.