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ANTHONY ODELL STRINGER
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
November 29, 1945 – March 1, 1968
Service recordAnthony Odell Stringer, of Rockmart, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 1, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 25
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- November 29, 1945
- Home of record
- Rockmart, Georgia (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 42E, Line 25
- STEVEN PAUL SWATEKHospitalman · March 1, 1968
- ROGER ALLEN THOMPSONLance Corporal · March 1, 1968
- WALTER LEE THOMPSONPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- JOHN TILLMAN IIILance Corporal · March 1, 1968
From Rockmart
- THOMAS LEROY FORBESMaster Sergeant · September 12, 1967
- GROVER LYNN SUITCorporal · September 8, 1968
- JAMES RANDALL COPELANDCorporal · January 25, 1969
- CLARENCE EUGENE HARPER JRSpecialist Five · December 29, 1969
- HOMER VIRGIL LEEStaff Sergeant · May 31, 1970
- GUY LAMAR MEARS JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1970
- WAYNE LEE KENTPrivate First Class · December 5, 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.