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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edward Harold Stuart.

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EDWARD HAROLD STUART

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 22, 1947 – February 10, 1968

Service record

Edward Harold Stuart, of Eugene, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 38E · Line 72

Position of Panel 38E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
January 22, 1947
Home of record
Eugene, Oregon (Lane County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 10, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.

Also on Panel 38E, Line 72

From Eugene

All 38 names from Eugene →

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.