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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Maxie Lane Price.

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MAXIE LANE PRICE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 3, 1947 – January 26, 1968

Service record

Maxie Lane Price, of Greenville, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 26, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 41

Position of Panel 35E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 3, 1947
Home of record
Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 26, 1968
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1968; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Greenville

All 52 names from Greenville →

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.