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M RAYMOND REEVES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 12, 1948 – March 3, 1968
Service recordM Raymond Reeves, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 56
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- August 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Bristol, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 42E, Line 56
- HARMON WAYNE PERRYSpecialist Five · March 3, 1968
- EDDIE LEE PLEASANTSpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- HAROLD EDWARD REKAUPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- SAMUEL DEWEY RIDER JRSergeant · March 3, 1968
From Bristol
- CARL EUGENE FELLSpecialist Four · June 28, 1966
- LAWRENCE F RUNEYSecond Lieutenant · June 28, 1966
- WALTER W SHIPLEY JRStaff Sergeant · August 25, 1966
- WILLIAM HARRY HAWORTHSergeant · May 25, 1967
- HOPSON COVINGTONPrivate First Class · December 29, 1967
- REGINALD ALFONSO STANCILFirst Lieutenant · January 26, 1968
- TERRY JOSEPH PATRICK NEILLCorporal · June 23, 1968
- DONALD WILLIAM HALLOWSpecialist Five · February 23, 1969
- DAVID WILLIAM HAWRYSHKOPetty Officer Second Class · February 27, 1969
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.