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REGINALD FOSTER POWELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 13, 1947 – June 16, 1968
Service recordReginald Foster Powell, of Empire, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 16, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 9
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Empire, California (Stanislaus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 9
- FRANK SPOTWOOD JRSpecialist Four · June 16, 1968
- DONALD HENRY STEPHENSPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT TAGUESpecialist Four · June 16, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE TAYLORPrivate First Class · June 16, 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.