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MICHAEL EUGENE PROTHERO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 8, 1949 – June 19, 1968
Service recordMichael Eugene Prothero, of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 1
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Reedsburg, Wisconsin (Sauk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 19, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 1
- ANDREW GUS RICHARDPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- GEOFFREY THOMAS ROWSONLance Corporal · June 19, 1968
- ERNEST SEICHI SAKAISergeant First Class · June 19, 1968
- MICHAEL VINCENT SORTERSergeant · June 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH WAYNE HICKSCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 34
From Reedsburg
- THOMAS JOHN KLEMPSpecialist Four · November 6, 1966
- JEROME ALAN SCHUETTPrivate · February 13, 1968
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.