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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 Robert Micheal Reynolds.

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ROBERT MICHEAL REYNOLDS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 12, 1948 – August 16, 1968

Service record

Robert Micheal Reynolds, of Imperial, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48W · Line 30

Position of Panel 48W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rough Terrain Forklift And Loader Operator (62M)
Unit (as recorded)
630 ENG CO 39 ENG BN USARV
Born
January 12, 1948
Home of record
Imperial, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 16, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

55 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1968; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “630 ENG CO 39 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48W, Line 30

Same unit, same day

From Imperial

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.