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REY L DUFFIN
Captain · U.S. Air Force
April 23, 1931 – November 17, 1967
Service recordRey L Duffin, of Tooele, Utah, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 17, 1967, in Thailand, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 AF
- Born
- April 23, 1931
- Home of record
- Tooele, Utah (Tooele County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 17, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Country
- Thailand
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 AF”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Thailand, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 8
- ROGER GENE EMRICHLieutenant Commander · November 17, 1967
- TERRY MICHAEL ENRIQUEZPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- ROBERT JERRY FARLEY SRSpecialist Four · November 17, 1967
- JOHN DAVID FLANIGANPrivate · November 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KARL DIETER HEZELMajor · Panel 30E, Line 9
- THEODORE W JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · Panel 30E, Line 9
- WILLIAM E MCDONALDMajor · Panel 30E, Line 10
- MAX E NICHOLSMajor · Panel 30E, Line 11
From Tooele
- LYNDSEY FRANK FONGERPrivate First Class · February 22, 1966
- SAMUEL EUGENE WATKINSPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- DAN BURGESS YARBROUGHSecond Lieutenant · July 11, 1969
- VICTOR ARNALDO TAFOYACorporal · June 7, 1970
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.