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DAVID JOE STANSBURY
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
August 15, 1949 – November 26, 1968
Service recordDavid Joe Stansbury, of Centerville, Indiana, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 69
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Centerville, Indiana (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 69
- GEORGE ARTHUR SHAVIESSpecialist Four · November 26, 1968
- MARSHALL ROY SMITHSpecialist Four · November 26, 1968
- PATRICK EDWARD SMITH JRSergeant · November 26, 1968
- RODGER ALAN BLATNICKLance Corporal · November 27, 1968
From Centerville
- STEPHEN LOUIS WRIGHTSpecialist Four · July 9, 1968
- HAROLD EARL MUSSELMANLance Corporal · March 3, 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.