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GARY DAVIS PRINCE
Corporal · U.S. Army
March 9, 1948 – November 29, 1968
Service recordGary Davis Prince, of Gibsonville, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 7
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Gibsonville, North Carolina (Alamance County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37W, Line 7
- TERRYL GLENN PARTSAFASSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- JOHN SHELBY POOLERSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- TED JAMES RULEFirst Lieutenant · November 29, 1968
- HURSTON EDWARD WORRELLPrivate First Class · November 29, 1968
From Gibsonville
- JOHN LEWIS MCDANIELMajor · April 26, 1968
- LAWRENCE BARBE COLEMAN JRPrivate First Class · August 13, 1971
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.