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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William F Reilly III.

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WILLIAM F REILLY III

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 14, 1944 – July 17, 1968

Service record

William F Reilly III, of Cheverly, Maryland, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52W · Line 41

Position of Panel 52W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Basic Field Artillery Officer (I) (0801)
Born
December 14, 1944
Home of record
Cheverly, Maryland (Prince George's County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 17, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 52W, Line 41

From Cheverly

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.