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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Conley Stoner.

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JAMES CONLEY STONER

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 7, 1945 – August 11, 1969

Service record

James Conley Stoner, of La Fayette, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 11, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 5

Position of Panel 19W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Operations Man (0848)
Born
April 7, 1945
Home of record
La Fayette, Georgia (Walker County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 11, 1969
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 5

From La Fayette

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.