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DOUGLAS EARL STOVER
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
January 1, 1947 – March 26, 1969
Service recordDouglas Earl Stover, of Concord, New Hampshire, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 53
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. Army
- Rank
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 254 MED DET USARV
- Born
- January 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Concord, New Hampshire (Merrimack County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “254 MED DET USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 53
- ROBERT VENARD SHRACK JRSergeant · March 26, 1969
- JAMES LLOYD STEWARTSpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
- DAVID STONESpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
- JAMES HAROLD WATSONSpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY LEE HABETSSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 46
- CARLOS WILSON RUCKERSpecialist Five · Panel 28W, Line 52
From Concord
- ERNEST GEORGE PAULPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- EVERETT PORTER RUNNELLSSpecialist Four · August 27, 1966
- WALTER ALECK MURZINLance Corporal · October 2, 1966
- RONALD D ROACHSergeant · February 12, 1968
- THOMAS JOHN SALTMARSHPrivate First Class · March 14, 1968
- GEORGE PHILIP DESMARAISPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- WAYNE THOMAS PROVENCHERPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
- WILLIAM R DOUILLETTE JRPrivate First Class · January 29, 1969
- GARY CHESTER TOWLECorporal · May 24, 1969
- RONALD LEON OLSONSpecialist Four · November 24, 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.