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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 James Arnold Stoeberl.

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JAMES ARNOLD STOEBERL

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

October 8, 1945 – October 7, 1967

Service record

James Arnold Stoeberl, of Almena, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 7, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 67

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Quartermaster Supply Specialist (76E)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
October 8, 1945
Home of record
Almena, Wisconsin (Barron County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 7, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date October 7, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 67

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.