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DEE WAYNE STONE JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
February 17, 1943 – November 11, 1966
Service recordDee Wayne Stone JR, of Forest Hills, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 119 AVN CO 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- February 17, 1943
- Home of record
- Forest Hills, New York (Queens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “119 AVN CO 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 57
- CARROLL U THOMPSONCaptain · November 11, 1966
- VERNON BERNARD TODDPrivate First Class · November 11, 1966
- CHARLES ELMER WHITEFIELDSergeant · November 11, 1966
- DANIEL ACOSTAPrivate First Class · November 12, 1966
Same unit, same day
- WALTER RICHARD SPEARE IIICaptain · Panel 12E, Line 54
- EDMOND DAVID SCHOENIGSpecialist Four · Panel 12E, Line 56
From Forest Hills
- NORMAN STANLEY LEVYLieutenant Commander · October 26, 1966
- STEPHEN LEBITZ JRSpecialist Four · July 23, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN MYSKYWEIZPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- ALAN STUART GELBStaff Sergeant · May 18, 1968
- LUIS FORERO SAAVEDRAPrivate First Class · October 12, 1968
- ROBERT P MAYERWarrant Officer 1 · September 17, 1969
- FRANCIS XAVIER EGANCaptain · December 19, 1972
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.