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WILLIAM REYNOLDS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 12, 1944 – March 15, 1969
Service recordWilliam Reynolds, of Kernersville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 48
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- December 12, 1944
- Home of record
- Kernersville, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1969; two of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 29W, Line 48
- JOHN WILLIAM PRICESpecialist Five · March 15, 1969
- DAVID JAMES PUGHLance Corporal · March 15, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD ROBERTS JRPrivate First Class · March 15, 1969
- BENJAMIN ALONZA SMALLSCorporal · March 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BRIAN FRANCIS MCCARTHYSpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 47
From Kernersville
- JERRY WILLIAM MOTSINGERStaff Sergeant · June 9, 1968
- JIMMY ROGER WESTMORELANDPrivate First Class · April 8, 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.