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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 J Lynn Stenhouse JR.

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J LYNN STENHOUSE JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 1, 1948 – September 19, 1969

Service record

J Lynn Stenhouse JR, of Fountain Inn, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 19, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 115

Position of Panel 18W 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 First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Forward Area Alerting Radar Operator (16J)
Unit (as recorded)
B BTRY 1 BN 44 ARTY XXIV CORPS
Born
December 1, 1948
Home of record
Fountain Inn, South Carolina (Greenville County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 19, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date September 19, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 115

From Fountain Inn

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.