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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Michael Reinhardt.

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JAMES MICHAEL REINHARDT

Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 9, 1949 – April 13, 1970

Service record

James Michael Reinhardt, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 13, 1970, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 1

Position of Panel 11W 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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 9, 1949
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 13, 1970
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1970; three of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 1

Same unit, same day

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.