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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 Donald Eugene Stahl.

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DONALD EUGENE STAHL

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

January 25, 1938 – June 27, 1966

Service record

Donald Eugene Stahl, of Southwest, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 27, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 102

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Cryptographic Systems Technician, Ima (6422)
Born
January 25, 1938
Home of record
Southwest, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 27, 1966
Age
28
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 102

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.