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DANIEL MELVIN STONE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 4, 1948 – February 16, 1968
Service recordDaniel Melvin Stone, of Ilion, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 16, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 67
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- January 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Ilion, New York (Herkimer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 67
- JOSEPH VICTOR SPELLMANSpecialist Four · February 16, 1968
- PEARLY JUNIOR THOMASStaff Sergeant · February 16, 1968
- ROBERT BRIAN THOMSONCorporal · February 16, 1968
- JIMMY ELLISON TOLLIVERStaff Sergeant · February 16, 1968
From Ilion
- CARTER LEE MOORECorporal · March 27, 1968
- THOMAS CHRIST SHEPHERD SRSergeant First Class · March 24, 1971
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.