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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Edward Pringle.

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JAMES EDWARD PRINGLE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 8, 1949 – June 9, 1968

Service record

James Edward Pringle, of Dansville, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 58W · Line 13

Position of Panel 58W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
May 8, 1949
Home of record
Dansville, New York (Livingston County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 9, 1968
Age
19
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

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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.