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WILLIAM CHARLES PRCHLIK
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
December 1, 1947 – August 6, 1970
Service recordWilliam Charles Prchlik, of Knox, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 6, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 89
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- December 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Knox, Indiana (Starke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 6, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date August 6, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 89
- LLOYD ALBERT MURPHYSenior Chief Petty Officer · August 6, 1970
- RONALD EARL SAMUELSONPrivate First Class · August 6, 1970
- WILLIAM FREDERICK SHAW JRSergeant · August 6, 1970
- KENNITH WALKER TAPSCOTTLieutenant · August 6, 1970
From Knox
- ROBERT LOYD HANSELMANSpecialist Four · June 17, 1969
- GEORGE ANDREWS HOWESChief Warrant Officer 3 · January 10, 1970
- RONALD STEVE SHEPHERDPrivate First Class · August 28, 1971
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.