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HAROLD B KING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 18, 1947 – April 9, 1967
Service recordHarold B King, of Jonesboro, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Jonesboro, Tennessee (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 5
- LOUIS HENRY JILEKSpecialist Four · April 9, 1967
- JAMES FLOYD MADDENCorporal · April 9, 1967
- WILLIAM CURTIS MADISONPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
- RONALD MEDFORD THOMAS IIPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH ARTHUR CULLENSecond Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 2
- ARTHUR A GLEASONPrivate · Panel 18E, Line 4
- DOUGLAS C HOLLANDSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 4
From Jonesboro
- CHARLES JESSE FORDSergeant · March 10, 1966
- HAROLD GENE AYERSPrivate First Class · June 26, 1966
- RAY MORGAN KEITH JONESSpecialist Four · November 13, 1967
- JAMES EDGAR BOWMANStaff Sergeant · May 5, 1968
- ROBERT GENTRY HODGESPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- EDDIE B STORYMajor · October 25, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD HYLMONCorporal · March 8, 1970
- LOUIS ROBERT TAYLORStaff Sergeant · December 6, 1972
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.