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RALPH HENRY REID
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 26, 1942 – February 11, 1968
Service recordRalph Henry Reid, of Belle Haven, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 80
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- October 26, 1942
- Home of record
- Belle Haven, Virginia (Accomack County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 80
- CLYDE A RHINEHARTSergeant · February 11, 1968
- RONALD EDWARD SATCHELLPrivate · February 11, 1968
- KENNETH EUGENE SCHNEIDERSpecialist Four · February 11, 1968
- WALTER MICHAEL SCOTTPrivate · February 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES PEYTON CROOKPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 76
From Belle Haven
- EDMUND BAGWEL SCARBOROUGHCaptain · May 10, 1968
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.