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JAMES LEO STILES
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 29, 1947 – June 20, 1968
Service recordJames Leo Stiles, of Bedford Heights, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Bedford Heights, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 10
- WILLIAM ROY LAPLANTE IIISpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
- SIDNEY CHESTER SQUIRESPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
- DAVID LYNN STOCKMANSergeant · June 20, 1968
- DONALD D WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS MARTIN WERNERSpecialist Four · Panel 55W, Line 7
From Bedford Heights
- RICHARD ALAN SABLOTNYSpecialist Four · October 27, 1968
- JOHN STEPHENSON WILSONWarrant Officer 1 · June 12, 1970
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.