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JOHN NORMAN REILLY JR
Captain · U.S. Air Force
January 12, 1943 – November 19, 1968
Service recordJohn Norman Reilly JR, of Spring Lake, New Jersey, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 19, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 13
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
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- January 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Spring Lake, New Jersey (Monmouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 13
- TED LEROY SHARPSpecialist Four · November 19, 1968
- LEROY SPENCER JRPrivate First Class · November 19, 1968
- WAYNE ARTAMUS TICESpecialist Five · November 19, 1968
- JAMES DOUGLAS ARMSTEAD JRPrivate First Class · November 20, 1968
From Spring Lake
- DOMINIC N SCATUORCHIO JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 10, 1970
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.