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JAMES WILLIAM REESE
Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force
February 13, 1948 – March 11, 1968
Service recordJames William Reese, of Whitesburg, Georgia, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 11, 1968, in Thailand, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 19
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Airman First Class (A1C)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- February 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Whitesburg, Georgia (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Thailand
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in Thailand, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 19
- JAMES LEO NUFERPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- GEORGE HERMAN OEHLERPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- ERNEST ARTHUR OLDSColonel · March 11, 1968
- JEFFREY LLOYD PECKSpecialist Four · March 11, 1968
- DAVID STANLEY PRICESergeant · March 11, 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.