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WILLIAM MEDFORD PANGLE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 22, 1948 – April 23, 1968
Service recordWilliam Medford Pangle, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 23, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 38
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Harrisonburg, Virginia (Harrisonburg (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 23, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 38
- THOMAS JAMES DAVIDSONPlatoon Sergeant · April 23, 1968
- THOMAS JOEL DAVISSpecialist Five · April 23, 1968
- DON FAUROT DIANMaster Sergeant · April 23, 1968
- AMOS OLIVER FOXMajor · April 23, 1968
From Harrisonburg
- GARLAND D WHITMORE IIFirst Lieutenant · September 5, 1967
- ELZA MORTON BREWER JRSergeant · November 11, 1967
- CHARLES VENTON MCGOVERNStaff Sergeant · November 10, 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.