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ELTON STANTON STALLS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 15, 1946 – June 27, 1968
Service recordElton Stanton Stalls, of Robersonville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 5
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- December 15, 1946
- Home of record
- Robersonville, North Carolina (Martin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1968; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 54W, Line 5
- BILLY W CHILDRESSSergeant · June 27, 1968
- RAYMOND PAUL DELUCASpecialist Four · June 27, 1968
- LUPERTO GARCIALance Corporal · June 27, 1968
- VINCENT JOSEPH ROSSOTTOCorporal · June 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BENNIE EDWARD HODGESSergeant First Class · Panel 54W, Line 6
- JAMES HOUSTON ROULETTSpecialist Five · Panel 54W, Line 7
- MELVIN RICHARD WHITEChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 54W, Line 7
From Robersonville
- JOHN DAVID KEELSpecialist Four · January 27, 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.