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DOUGLAS LEE STIGGINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 3, 1949 – July 24, 1969
Service recordDouglas Lee Stiggins, of Partridge, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 24, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 41
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 3, 1949
- Home of record
- Partridge, Kansas (Reno County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date July 24, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 41
- ARCHIE HUGH MCDANIEL JRCorporal · July 24, 1969
- CALVIN LAVON MCDURMONCorporal · July 24, 1969
- JOHN PHELEN ROECaptain · July 24, 1969
- PAUL JOHN SALMINENSergeant · July 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.