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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 Daniel Wayne Stutler.

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DANIEL WAYNE STUTLER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

August 27, 1947 – July 4, 1966

Service record

Daniel Wayne Stutler, of Fairmont, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 4, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 131 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 131

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
August 27, 1947
Home of record
Fairmont, West Virginia (Marion County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 4, 1966
Age
18
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1966; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 131

From Fairmont

All 18 names from Fairmont →

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.