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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Charles Reilly.

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JOHN CHARLES REILLY

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

December 19, 1946 – May 22, 1970

Service record

John Charles Reilly, of Cranston, Rhode Island, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1970, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 81

Position of Panel 10W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 19, 1946
Home of record
Cranston, Rhode Island (Providence County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 22, 1970
Age
23
Province
Quang Duc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1970; four of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 127 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 81

Same unit, same day

From Cranston

All 12 names from Cranston →

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.