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RENE REYNOSO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 23, 1946 – January 12, 1967
Service recordRene Reynoso, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- January 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 17
- CLAYTON CHARLES KEMP JRPetty Officer Third Class · January 12, 1967
- CHARLES D MAXWELLMaster Sergeant · January 12, 1967
- BILLY W MCKEELStaff Sergeant · January 12, 1967
- WAYNE CONRAD REINECKEPetty Officer Third Class · January 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN EDWARD BUSCHPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 14
- FREDERICK THOMAS CARTERPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 14
- RODNEY GEORGE DRAKESpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 14
- ANGUS N JACKSONSergeant · Panel 14E, Line 15
- THOMAS ERWIN MATUSHPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 16
- BILLY W MCKEELStaff Sergeant · Panel 14E, Line 17
- SANDER CHRIS SANDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 18
From Los Angeles
- JAMES WILLIAM MCNALLYTechnical Sergeant · October 23, 1963
- FRANK JOHN HOLGUINPrivate First Class · March 15, 1964
- RICHARD DEAN GOSSCaptain · August 29, 1964
- JOHN LOWERY MCCOYSergeant First Class · September 26, 1964
- JAMES HENRY MCLEANMaster Sergeant · February 9, 1965
- DWIGHT GLENN FRAKESChief Petty Officer · February 24, 1965
- AARON HAROLD WESTERNPrivate First Class · June 16, 1965
- EDWARD JAMES ANDERSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- MAURICE RICHARD HILLPrivate · June 29, 1965
- WILLIAM WARREN HAILLieutenant Colonel · August 2, 1965
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.