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GARY MORGAN PRIDGEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 1, 1949 – June 27, 1970
Service recordGary Morgan Pridgen, of Kinston, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1970, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 99
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
- U/A Airplane Repairman (67C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 1, 1949
- Home of record
- Kinston, Alabama (Coffee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1970; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 99
- GERALD LEE MCDOWELLSergeant · June 27, 1970
- PAUL EVERETTE PAQUIN JRSergeant · June 27, 1970
- CHARLES DANIEL PEDIGOSpecialist Four · June 27, 1970
- ROBERT JAMES WALTERSCaptain · June 27, 1970
Same unit, same day
- LANCE MICHAEL LOFMANWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 9W, Line 98
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.