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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gus Stovall JR.

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GUS STOVALL JR

Private · U.S. Army

June 14, 1945 – March 9, 1967

Service record

Gus Stovall JR, of Springfield, Massachusetts, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1967, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 49

Position of Panel 16E 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 (PVT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
June 14, 1945
Home of record
Springfield, Massachusetts (Hampden County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 9, 1967
Age
21
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 49

Same unit, same day

From Springfield

All 47 names from Springfield →

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.