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GREGORY GENE PRITCHETT
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
February 6, 1948 – May 3, 1968
Service recordGregory Gene Pritchett, of Walnut, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 3, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 28
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- February 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Walnut, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 28
- HOLLAND IRWIN LANGHAMCorporal · May 3, 1968
- WARREN F NICKEL JRPrivate First Class · May 3, 1968
- ALAN PAUL PAGLIARONISpecialist Four · May 3, 1968
- WILLIE LE EARL PONDERPrivate First Class · May 3, 1968
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.