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JOSEPH CLARK REID
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
December 10, 1948 – April 13, 1968
Service recordJoseph Clark Reid, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 46
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 46
- RICHARD PEGUEROCorporal · April 13, 1968
- PAUL EUGENE POIRIERSergeant · April 13, 1968
- ALFRED LEE POWELLSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- WILLIAM EARL PROPSTPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
From Baton Rouge
- THOMAS MOOREChief Master Sergeant · October 31, 1965
- GEORGE CARLTON MCCLEARYColonel · November 5, 1965
- LARRY NELSONSpecialist Four · January 19, 1966
- PHILLIP HEASE HOLMES JRMajor · June 8, 1966
- WALTER LOUIS WELLSSpecialist Four · September 22, 1966
- CARROLL GENE HOGEMANCaptain · November 26, 1966
- WILLIE GRANT JRSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- LEROY JOHN OLIVER KLINGPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- WILLIAM BRIAN HAYSCorporal · November 30, 1967
- THOMAS DALTON BABIN JRFirst Lieutenant · January 4, 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.