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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Emmett Stone.

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JAMES EMMETT STONE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 27, 1944 – November 16, 1967

Service record

James Emmett Stone, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 16, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 5

Position of Panel 30E 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
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 27, 1944
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 16, 1967
Age
23
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.