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WAYNE FRANCIS REED
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 13, 1948 – July 16, 1967
Service recordWayne Francis Reed, of Crescent, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 16, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 81
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- December 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Crescent, Iowa (Pottawattamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 81
- CHARLES H RICHARDS JRPrivate First Class · July 16, 1967
- REYNALDO SANDOVAL TORRESPrivate First Class · July 16, 1967
- WESLEY EARL BELLAMYSpecialist Four · July 17, 1967
- JESSE LEE HARRISPrivate First Class · July 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GARY THOMAS MARBUTTPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 80
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.