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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Reid McDonald Naney.

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REID MCDONALD NANEY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 22, 1949 – February 23, 1969

Service record

Reid McDonald Naney, of Bessemer City, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 12

Position of Panel 31W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
April 22, 1949
Home of record
Bessemer City, North Carolina (Gaston County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1969
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; 30 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 119 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 12

Same unit, same day

From Bessemer City

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.