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WILLARD FLOYD PROCHASKA
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
July 11, 1948 – February 23, 1969
Service recordWillard Floyd Prochaska, of Vienna, Virginia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 23, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 16
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- July 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Vienna, Virginia (Fairfax County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; 83 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 16
- DANIEL LOYD POFFSergeant · February 23, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER DAVID PRATHERLance Corporal · February 23, 1969
- THOMAS RAY PRESTONSpecialist Five · February 23, 1969
- THOMAS GORDON PRICEPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
From Vienna
- HARVEY MCKEE CARKINSergeant · February 15, 1967
- GERALD CRAWFORD MULLPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- ARTHUR FLETCHER CHANEYWarrant Officer 1 · May 3, 1968
- WILLIAM MCNAMARA LEVENDISCorporal · May 25, 1968
- LORENZO RAYNARD JOHNSONPrivate First Class · June 23, 1969
- WELBY HERBERT GRAYSON IIIPrivate First Class · August 28, 1969
- DONALD R MOORE JRFirst Lieutenant · October 2, 1969
- KENNETH MARTIN SCHLIEFirst Lieutenant · October 20, 1970
- BERNARD LEVERN JOHNSON IIFirst Lieutenant · February 21, 1972
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.