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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Dennis Stocklin.

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GARY DENNIS STOCKLIN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

January 15, 1947 – June 10, 1969

Service record

Gary Dennis Stocklin, of Kansas City, Missouri, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 16

Position of Panel 22W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
January 15, 1947
Home of record
Kansas City, Missouri (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 10, 1969
Age
22
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 16

From Kansas City

All 150 names from Kansas City →

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.