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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 Robert Lee Reynolds JR.

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ROBERT LEE REYNOLDS JR

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

October 26, 1944 – June 22, 1966

Service record

Robert Lee Reynolds JR, of Lebanon, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 22, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 76

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 1 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
October 26, 1944
Home of record
Lebanon, Indiana (Boone County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 22, 1966
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1966; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “C CO 1 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 76

From Lebanon

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.