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LOREN STEVEN REEVES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 28, 1945 – November 11, 1966
Service recordLoren Steven Reeves, of Des Moines, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 117 AVN CO 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 28, 1945
- Home of record
- Des Moines, Iowa (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “117 AVN CO 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 56
- RODOLFO GUADALUPE GONZALEZSpecialist Four · November 11, 1966
- TERRENCE MANN ROONEYWarrant Officer 1 · November 11, 1966
- EDMOND DAVID SCHOENIGSpecialist Four · November 11, 1966
- MILTON FRANCIS SMITHCaptain · November 11, 1966
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE MANN ROONEYWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 12E, Line 56
From Des Moines
- CONNIE LEROY CHANDLERSergeant · November 20, 1965
- HARRY RICHARD CRUMLEYCaptain · January 25, 1966
- WALTER BOYCE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- MARSHALL MYRON HOLT JRCaptain · March 2, 1966
- STEPHEN PAUL ALSTEDPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DENNIS ARNOLD MAYCaptain · April 29, 1966
- WILLIAM FREDRICK FREESTONEGunnery Sergeant · July 5, 1966
- JERRY LEE LEONARDISergeant First Class · July 10, 1966
- TERRY PATRICK SLOANPetty Officer First Class · November 9, 1966
- LARRY JOSEPH NEHRINGLance Corporal · January 9, 1967
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.