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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Armond Joseph Stein JR.

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ARMOND JOSEPH STEIN JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

September 1, 1947 – May 13, 1968

Service record

Armond Joseph Stein JR, of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 60E · Line 3

Position of Panel 60E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 1, 1947
Home of record
Donaldsonville, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1968
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

101 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1968; nine of them were lost in Long An Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 115 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 60E, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Donaldsonville

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.