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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 Harold Edwin Stoelt.

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HAROLD EDWIN STOELT

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

August 19, 1929 – March 12, 1966

Service record

Harold Edwin Stoelt, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 2

Position of Panel 6E 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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
General Dentist (63A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 19, 1929
Home of record
Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 12, 1966
Age
36
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 2

From Detroit

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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.