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GENE WALLACE STOCKMAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 23, 1943 – October 29, 1971
Service recordGene Wallace Stockman, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 54
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Administrative Specialist (71L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- June 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1971
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 54
- BOBBY BLAKE WHITECorporal · October 28, 1971
- JOHN PARM CARR IIISpecialist Five · October 29, 1971
- JIMMY LAWRENCE HAYNESPrivate First Class · October 29, 1971
- LINUS LABIN OAKLEYSergeant · October 29, 1971
- JAMES LLOYD VAUGHANLieutenant Colonel · July 8, 1972
Same unit, same day
- JERRY EUGENE TEWPrivate First Class · Panel 2W, Line 55
From Pittsburgh
- CLEVELAND WILLIAM GORDONMajor · January 7, 1964
- THEODORE ALAN WINOWITCHPrivate First Class · December 30, 1964
- CHARLES FREDRICK CLYDESDALELieutenant (junior grade) · March 15, 1965
- WILLIAM DONAVAN BENNINGStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1965
- FRANK HUFFORD BLANKSergeant · August 18, 1965
- JOHN L JEMISONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- FRANK JOSEPH NADANY JRSergeant First Class · October 31, 1965
- RUSSELL EARL HAMMONDSergeant First Class · November 5, 1965
- HARRY FRANCIS JEDRZEJEWSKIPlatoon Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RONALD JOSEPH LOERLEINSergeant · November 25, 1965
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.