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WILLIAM HARLEY PRATHER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 26, 1946 – September 12, 1968
Service recordWilliam Harley Prather, of Hartville, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 41
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Hartville, Ohio (Stark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1968; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 41
- KURT FRANCIS PONATHPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- CLIFFORD LEO SCHOLLLance Corporal · September 12, 1968
- EARL ERIC SHARKSergeant First Class · September 12, 1968
- LARRY ROY SIMSStaff Sergeant · September 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HENRY LOUIS JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 38
From Hartville
- JARVIS CRAWFORD LOWDERSergeant · July 23, 1966
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.