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GLENN AIREN PRANGER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 18, 1947 – July 2, 1968
Service recordGlenn Airen Pranger, of Plymouth, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 38
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Plymouth, Indiana (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 38
- JOHN EMORY MILESPrivate First Class · July 2, 1968
- MANUEL GARCIA OROPEZAPrivate First Class · July 2, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE SEBRINGSergeant First Class · July 2, 1968
- JAMES CLEVELAND TULLISSergeant · July 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALFRED JOSEPH HOLTZ JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 54W, Line 37
From Plymouth
- ROBERT LYNNE LONGCaptain · December 22, 1967
- TERRY WAYNE DICKERHOFFSpecialist Five · April 1, 1969
- MARVIN LEE DIPERTPrivate First Class · July 18, 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.