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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Lee Stockburger.

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ARTHUR LEE STOCKBURGER

Captain · U.S. Marine Corps

April 20, 1940 – August 27, 1968

Service record

Arthur Lee Stockburger, of Livingston, Montana, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 27, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46W · Line 45

Position of Panel 46W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Pilot Hmh/M/L/A Uh-1n Qualified (I) (7563)
Born
April 20, 1940
Home of record
Livingston, Montana (Park County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 27, 1968
Age
28
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date August 27, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 46W, Line 45

From Livingston

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.