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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold Alvin Stone.

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HAROLD ALVIN STONE

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 19, 1938 – May 13, 1968

Service record

Harold Alvin Stone, of Champaign, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 60E · Line 3

Position of Panel 60E 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 19, 1938
Home of record
Champaign, Illinois (Champaign County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1968
Age
29
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

101 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 60E, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Champaign

All 18 names from Champaign →

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.