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JOSEPH DAVID PRINCE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 16, 1944 – May 17, 1967
Service recordJoseph David Prince JR, of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 18
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
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 16, 1944
- Home of record
- Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (Halifax County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1967; eight of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20E, Line 18
- DON ALLAN REDFEARNPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- ARTHUR REYNOLDS JRPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- JOHN ELLWOOD SCHEETZPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- ANDREW JONAH SHORT IIISpecialist Four · May 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ELLWOOD SCHEETZPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 18
- TERENCE EDWARD SIMONPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 19
From Roanoke Rapids
- JOHN DENNIS COX IICorporal · November 8, 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.