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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edward Arnold Stahl.

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EDWARD ARNOLD STAHL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 19, 1945 – May 25, 1967

Service record

Edward Arnold Stahl, of Westphalia, Kansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 107

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
September 19, 1945
Home of record
Westphalia, Kansas (Anderson County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 107

Same unit, same day

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.