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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold Eugene Stiger.

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HAROLD EUGENE STIGER

Master Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 15, 1921 – February 7, 1967

Service record

Harold Eugene Stiger, of Clyde, Ohio, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 45. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 7

Position of Panel 15E 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
Master Sergeant (MSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
September 15, 1921
Home of record
Clyde, Ohio (Sandusky County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 7, 1967
Age
45
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 7

From Clyde

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.