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RAYMOND RONALD SPROUL
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 4, 1945 – February 23, 1968
Service recordRaymond Ronald Sproul, of Old Town, Maine, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 3
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- June 4, 1945
- Home of record
- Old Town, Maine (Penobscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; five of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 3
- JOSE ANGEL SALDIVARPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- JOHN LLOYD SAUNDERSLieutenant · February 23, 1968
- WILLIE FRAZER SHIPMANPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- DENNIS LEE SIEGELPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE WEAVERPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 5
From Old Town
- WALTER LOUIS HALLCaptain · June 10, 1965
- CHARLES ROBERT COILEYPrivate First Class · November 30, 1970
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.