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JOHN MONROE PRATT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 1, 1948 – May 6, 1969
Service recordJohn Monroe Pratt, of Raeford, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 14
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Raeford, North Carolina (Hoke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 25W, Line 14
- GILBERT GONZALES PALACIOSergeant · May 6, 1969
- KENNETH PARKERLance Corporal · May 6, 1969
- VICENTE ROSA-URBINASergeant First Class · May 6, 1969
- FOSTER LEE SONNIERSpecialist Four · May 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BURTON WARD DALKESpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 11
- CHARLES MCDONALD FULLERPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 11
- BRIAN EDWARD SWANESpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 15
From Raeford
- JEROME LOMAC MCCORMICKPrivate First Class · February 20, 1966
- SAM DIXON WARLICKSecond Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
- KENNETH WAYNE FLOYDCorporal · May 7, 1968
- HENRY FLOYD NUGENT JRSergeant First Class · July 8, 1968
- JAMES CLYDE CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · September 28, 1969
- ROBERT EARL DEWSergeant · August 30, 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.