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WILLIAM SIDWAY PRICE
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army
July 31, 1927 – March 29, 1968
Service recordWilliam Sidway Price, of Washington, District of Columbia, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1968, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ranger, Infantry Unit Commander (81542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 31, 1927
- Home of record
- Washington, District of Columbia (District Of Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1968
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Long Khanh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 5
- THOMAS RENDONSergeant · March 29, 1968
- MICHAEL ALLEN ROSEFirst Lieutenant · March 29, 1968
- MANUEL RUIZCorporal · March 29, 1968
- GARY ARNOLD SCOTTSecond Lieutenant · March 29, 1968
From Washington
- HOMER CLEO MCINTYRE JRCaptain · July 28, 1964
- JAMES MARTIN CALEStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- GEZA TEGLASSergeant · October 27, 1965
- LOUIS SHERRODSergeant · November 6, 1965
- LEROY HILLPlatoon Sergeant · November 8, 1965
- CALVIN BOUKNIGHTSpecialist Five · November 16, 1965
- PAUL EDWARD HURDLEStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- THEODORE M BEAMONSpecialist Four · November 23, 1965
- HARRY RONALD HOSKINSONSpecialist Four · December 13, 1965
- WILLIE MITCHELL JRAirman First Class · December 20, 1965
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.