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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allan Stegall JR.

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ALLAN STEGALL JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 10, 1943 – March 15, 1966

Service record

Allan Stegall JR, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 12

Position of Panel 6E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
June 10, 1943
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 15, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 12

From Atlanta

All 188 names from Atlanta →

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.