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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Reginald George Morse.

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REGINALD GEORGE MORSE

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

July 22, 1934 – March 5, 1967

Service record

Reginald George Morse, of Joanna, South Carolina, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 22

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
129 AVN CO 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
Born
July 22, 1934
Home of record
Joanna, South Carolina (Laurens County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 5, 1967
Age
32
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 22

From Joanna

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.