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HUBERT PRICE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 5, 1946 – February 2, 1968
Service recordHubert Price JR, of Stigler, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 82
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cargo Specialist (57H)
- Born
- March 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Stigler, Oklahoma (Haskell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; six of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 82
- ROY LEE PHILLIPSCorporal · February 2, 1968
- GARY STUART POSCOVERCorporal · February 2, 1968
- WILMER POTTSCorporal · February 2, 1968
- JOE HAROLD PRINGLESergeant Major · February 2, 1968
From Stigler
- DONNIE GORDON LEWISLance Corporal · May 14, 1968
- DONALD RAY BOYLESChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 21, 1969
- DOYLE GEAN PULSESpecialist Four · May 15, 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.