Vietnam War
Unit | 34th Armored Battalion, 25th Infantry Division |
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Rank | Staff Sergeant U.S. Army |
Entered Service From | Belmont North Carolina |
Date of Death | May 2 1970 |
Status | Recovered |
Memorialized |
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Honolulu Memorial |
Notes
Staff Sergeant Price was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On May 2, 1970, he was a passenger in a Bell Iroquois Utility Helicopter (UH-1H) flying just over the South Vietnamese border near the city of Memot, Cambodia when the aircraft received ground fire and was forced to land.
Initially, listed as missing in action, the remains of Staff Sergeant Price have been recovered and identified in 2015. His name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.