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COLBEN BENJAMIN STOKES JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 11, 1946 – January 30, 1968
Service recordColben Benjamin Stokes JR, of Laurel, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 30, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 82
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Warehouse Clerk (3051)
- Born
- April 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Laurel, Mississippi (Jones County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 82
- THOMAS HENRY SWINNEASergeant · January 30, 1968
- BRAD JOHN SZUTZPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- CHARLES THOMAS TATE JRPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- JIMMIE PAUL WALLCorporal · January 30, 1968
From Laurel
- PORTER THAD DAVISSergeant First Class · November 26, 1965
- ROBERT BUFORD JACKSONStaff Sergeant · September 21, 1966
- LARRY JAMES MCDONALDPrivate First Class · August 25, 1967
- GLENN GATES JACKSMajor · October 19, 1967
- FREDERICK DONALD MCCARTYSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
- ELMER DEAN HILLSpecialist Five · April 28, 1968
- THOMAS JERRY WALTERSCorporal · May 27, 1968
- ARTHUR HARMONPrivate First Class · July 6, 1968
- ANTHONY JEROME PORTISCorporal · August 15, 1968
- CHARLES LEE HATHORN JRSergeant · April 7, 1969
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.