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JOHNNIE LEE PRYEAR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 5, 1951 – March 6, 1971
Service recordJohnnie Lee Pryear, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1971, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 27
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- June 5, 1951
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1971; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 27
- STEPHEN WALTER BURGDORFERSpecialist Five · March 6, 1971
- HORACE LEE BURTONSpecialist Four · March 6, 1971
- JERRY FLORESSpecialist Five · March 6, 1971
- JAMES RUSSELL HICKSStaff Sergeant · March 6, 1971
Same unit, same day
- JERRY FLORESSpecialist Five · Panel 4W, Line 27
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.