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JAMES RONALD STUTES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 12, 1944 – June 6, 1970
Service recordJames Ronald Stutes, of Lafayette, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- October 12, 1944
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1970
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1970. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 22
- GARY LEE STEWARTSpecialist Four · June 6, 1970
- TERRY SCOTT WOODROFFECorporal · June 6, 1970
- CLYDE DOUGLAS ALLOWAYTechnical Sergeant · June 7, 1970
Same unit, same day
- MELVIN ERNEST DAVISSergeant First Class · Panel 9W, Line 19
From Lafayette
- GEORGE PARKER MCKNIGHTCaptain · December 11, 1965
- ROY JAMES RICHARDPrivate · May 29, 1966
- CARROLL JAMES HEBERTPrivate First Class · November 29, 1966
- PATRICK RONALD MURPHYSpecialist Four · March 14, 1967
- RAY WESLEY RHODUSSpecialist Four · April 1, 1967
- KENNETH JOHN STUTESLance Corporal · July 5, 1967
- ARTHUR J DELA HOUSSAYE JRCaptain · January 31, 1968
- THOMAS TRUETT HENSLEYMajor · March 17, 1968
- WALTER ALVIN SOUTHER IIICaptain · June 24, 1968
- HUBERT SINEGAL JRPrivate First Class · January 5, 1969
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.