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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 Ronney Dean Reece.

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RONNEY DEAN REECE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 25, 1948 – October 17, 1967

Service record

Ronney Dean Reece, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 17, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 30

Position of Panel 28E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 25, 1948
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 17, 1967
Age
18
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

75 names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1967; 62 of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 105 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 30

Same unit, same day

From Atlanta

All 188 names from Atlanta →

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.