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JOSEPH LEE RHINEHART
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 19, 1947 – May 30, 1967
Service recordJoseph Lee Rhinehart, of St Marys, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 17
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 19, 1947
- Home of record
- St Marys, West Virginia (Pleasants County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 30, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date May 30, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 17
- LEONARD ANDREA WYNNLance Corporal · May 29, 1967
- OSCAR BIEHL JRCaptain · May 30, 1967
- JOHN RICHARD CABRINILance Corporal · May 30, 1967
- THOMAS JOSEPH DEAN IIILance Corporal · May 30, 1967
From St Marys
- WILLIAM WAYNE WILSONPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- WILLIAM BLAINE ROLLINS JRSpecialist Four · January 18, 1969
- CHARLES WILLARD MILLER JRCorporal · February 7, 1969
- DAVID LEE TEMPLETONSpecialist Four · December 27, 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.