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HAROLD DEAN SPRAGG
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 13, 1947 – January 18, 1968
Service recordHarold Dean Spragg, of Dolton, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 18, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 71
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Dolton, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 71
- HOMER DOYLE SPRINGStaff Sergeant · January 18, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBB STALLLance Corporal · January 18, 1968
- ROBERT LARRY STOLZPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- JAMES A TILLEYSergeant · January 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD HAL DERENBURGERSergeant · Panel 34E, Line 67
- JAMES ALBERT MORRISONPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 70
- THOMAS LEROY WHITEHEADSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 72
From Dolton
- LARRY CHANDLER WESTPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH LENOVERPrivate First Class · March 28, 1967
- DALE ALAN BISHOPPrivate First Class · April 13, 1967
- ANTHONY JOHN SCHNELLER JRPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- DAVID KNOXLance Corporal · June 8, 1968
- JAMES CLARKE BEAVERCorporal · November 4, 1969
- JAMES HARRY SACHASCHIKPrivate First Class · February 24, 1970
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.