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WILLIAM LEWIS REGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 20, 1945 – November 8, 1969
Service recordWilliam Lewis Reger, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 46
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Communications Electronics Equipment Mechanic (31B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- February 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Buckhannon, West Virginia (Upshur County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 8, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 46
- CLINTON DWIGHT PIERCEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1969
- DARREL GENE PIERCEStaff Sergeant · November 8, 1969
- STEPHEN JAY PRASZYNSKICorporal · November 8, 1969
- NICHOLAS RALPH PROCINOSpecialist Four · November 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- NICHOLAS RALPH PROCINOSpecialist Four · Panel 16W, Line 46
From Buckhannon
- RONALD LEE FENSTERMACHERPrivate First Class · July 24, 1966
- RAYMON DALE KESLINGStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1967
- LESLEY WAYNE REEDStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1967
- RONALD PHILIP DEANPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
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.