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WAYNE PAUL REEVES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 21, 1949 – March 18, 1968
Service recordWayne Paul Reeves, of Mt Holly, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 28
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- July 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Mt Holly, New Jersey (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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Also on Panel 45E, Line 28
- JAMES MICHAEL RAYStaff Sergeant · March 18, 1968
- WILLIAM CLAUDE ROBERTSLance Corporal · March 18, 1968
- EULALIO ARTURO ROMANCorporal · March 18, 1968
- FRANK MILAN ROSS JRStaff Sergeant · March 18, 1968
From Mt Holly
- JOSEPH JOHN REILLYPrivate First Class · February 27, 1966
- ROBERT THOMAS DOUGHTYSpecialist Four · December 11, 1966
- RICHARD PLOTTSPrivate First Class · December 7, 1967
- WILLIAM EISTERSpecialist Five · February 6, 1968
- ANTHONY WILFRED TORRESPlatoon Sergeant · May 4, 1968
- WILLIAM DANIELS MEARA JRCaptain · November 2, 1968
- SOLOMON HERBERT BRYANTSergeant First Class · September 24, 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.