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DAVID MONROE PRUITT
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 13, 1947 – June 11, 1968
Service recordDavid Monroe Pruitt, of Wellford, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Wellford, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 29
- CHARLES EDWIN LEEPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- THEODORE PAUL RAYMONDCorporal · June 11, 1968
- BERNARD JAMES SNEAD JRPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- RAYMOND WOODROW TEMPLETONSergeant · June 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID HUGH LALICHCorporal · Panel 58W, Line 27
- THEODORE PAUL RAYMONDCorporal · Panel 58W, Line 29
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.