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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charley Vernon Stanley.

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CHARLEY VERNON STANLEY

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 6, 1927 – July 7, 1968

Service record

Charley Vernon Stanley, of Houston, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1968, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46W · Line 29

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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Born
April 6, 1927
Home of record
Houston, Texas

Casualty

Date of death
July 7, 1968
Age
41
Added to the Wall
2015

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1968. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 46W, Line 29

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2015, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.