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G LYLE STETTEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 22, 1943 – January 11, 1967
Service recordG Lyle Stetten, of Adrian, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 11, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Adrian, Michigan (Lenawee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 11, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 12
- ROBERT PETER SCHENAFirst Lieutenant · January 11, 1967
- GARY DON SHIELDSFirst Lieutenant · January 11, 1967
- JOHN LEE STRICKLANDPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- JOHN ONEIL WELSH JRPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LARRY DALE MYERSPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 13
From Adrian
- WAYNE JACOB GAUTZPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
- DAVID LEE ADAMSPrivate First Class · May 31, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT DAWSONSecond Lieutenant · October 27, 1967
- HUGH DON SCOTTCorporal · November 18, 1967
- FLOYD ALLAN HYDERCorporal · November 21, 1967
- ALLEN LANE WINTERSSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- DALE L E DAVISSergeant · February 15, 1968
- GEORGE LEE CARRPrivate First Class · July 28, 1968
- MICHAEL KELLY THOMPSONCaptain · March 21, 1969
- DUANE RICHARD KEILSergeant · July 3, 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.