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KARL FRANCIS RYNEARSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 15, 1943 – November 1, 1967
Service recordKarl Francis Rynearson, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 15, 1943
- Home of record
- Dunmore, Pennsylvania (Lackawanna County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 1, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1967; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 5
- LEWIS MILTON OGLESergeant · November 1, 1967
- FERDINAND JOSEPH QUATRONESergeant First Class · November 1, 1967
- THOMAS STEPHEN RICHARDSLance Corporal · November 1, 1967
- GEORGE BUSTER SULLENS JRPrivate First Class · November 1, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GARY LYNN GASCONPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 2
From Dunmore
- CAROL ANN ELIZABET DRAZBASecond Lieutenant · February 18, 1966
- ANTHONY JOSEPH BATTISTASecond Lieutenant · April 16, 1966
- THOMAS WILLIAM MALLOYSpecialist Four · December 27, 1967
- THOMAS MICHAEL WHARTONPrivate · June 18, 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.