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RONALD LE ROY REIL
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 15, 1926 – September 21, 1968
Service recordRonald Le Roy Reil, of Wilmot, South Dakota, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 21, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 57
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 70 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- May 15, 1926
- Home of record
- Wilmot, South Dakota (Roberts County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1968
- Age
- 42
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1968; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 70 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 57
- HOWARD OWENSSpecialist Five · September 21, 1968
- MICHAEL RANSOM PAGEPrivate First Class · September 21, 1968
- LEVERET ROSCOE PROSKYSergeant · September 21, 1968
- LEONARD F SKONIECKI JRSergeant · September 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLIFTON ANTHONY DAVISSpecialist Four · Panel 43W, Line 53
From Wilmot
- LAWRENCE JOHN FRAHMANMajor · July 2, 1966
- WALTER A RENELTColonel · November 20, 1969
- GERALD CLIFFORD SWAYZECaptain · December 30, 1969
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.