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NATHANIEL HARRIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 19, 1947 – October 18, 1967
Service recordNathaniel Harris, of Bessemer, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 18, 1967, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 36
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Bessemer, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 18, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 28E, Line 36
- TERRY HOWARD FENENGACorporal · October 18, 1967
- CHARLES WILLIAM INGELSPrivate First Class · October 18, 1967
- JAMES STEWART KELLSergeant · October 18, 1967
- OWEN C KELLEYSpecialist Four · October 18, 1967
From Bessemer
- ROY MARVIN HITT JRSergeant · November 4, 1965
- CORDELL SPENCERSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- MACK ARTHUR WAREPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY LAGRANDStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OAKESPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ELIJAH DANIEL JRStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1966
- MATTHEW WAREStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1966
- THOMAS C EVANSStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1967
- WILLIAM HORACE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1967
- LOUIS COLSTON JRPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
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.