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MERRILL DALE REICH JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 8, 1944 – May 27, 1968
Service recordMerrill Dale Reich JR, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 8, 1944
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 65W, Line 14
- EARL DONALD REEDAirman First Class · May 27, 1968
- HECTOR RIVERA-COLONSergeant First Class · May 27, 1968
- KENNETH RAY RUCKERSergeant · May 27, 1968
- SCOTT BRUCE SALTERPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANTHONY GEORGE PRIORCaptain · Panel 65W, Line 13
- HECTOR RIVERA-COLONSergeant First Class · Panel 65W, Line 14
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.