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RONALD RICHARD REINKE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 20, 1946 – September 6, 1967
Service recordRonald Richard Reinke, of Middleton, Wisconsin, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 6, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 16
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- December 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Middleton, Wisconsin (Dane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 16
- GARY EDWARD HIBBARDPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
- WINSTON TERRY ROBINSONCaptain · September 6, 1967
- JERRY CHARLES ROYALPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
- JAMES HENRY RUSTPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- SAMUEL RUSSELL MCGEE IIIPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 26E, Line 14
From Middleton
- JAMES GEORGE HILDEBRANDTStaff Sergeant · July 18, 1968
- DAVID ROBERT KINKWarrant Officer 1 · August 3, 1969
- DENNIS M STOPPLEWORTHPrivate · June 20, 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.