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RONALD LEE REED
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 27, 1949 – November 12, 1968
Service recordRonald Lee Reed, of Benton, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 12, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 56
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Benton, Kentucky (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 56
- HENRY LEWIS NIXPrivate First Class · November 12, 1968
- RUSSELL KEVIN OGDENSpecialist Four · November 12, 1968
- DOYLE EUGENE SALLEECorporal · November 12, 1968
- WILLIAM HAYS SCHAEFERCorporal · November 12, 1968
From Benton
- JERRY WAYNE DUNIGANLance Corporal · November 12, 1966
- JAMES EDWIN GLISSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL HALLStaff Sergeant · January 1, 1969
- ARNOLD NOEL JACOSergeant · September 6, 1969
- RONNIE LEE GIPSONSpecialist Four · July 23, 1972
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.