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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Reginald Wallace Lindsey.

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REGINALD WALLACE LINDSEY

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

June 19, 1947 – January 4, 1970

Service record

Reginald Wallace Lindsey, of Oakland, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 4, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 125

Position of Panel 15W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
June 19, 1947
Home of record
Oakland, California (Alameda County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 4, 1970
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1970; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 125

From Oakland

All 98 names from Oakland →

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.