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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Charles Stuller.

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JOHN CHARLES STULLER

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 14, 1942 – May 12, 1968

Service record

John Charles Stuller, of Falls Church, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 59E · Line 13

Position of Panel 59E 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
December 14, 1942
Home of record
Falls Church, Virginia (Falls Church (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1968
Age
25
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 59E, Line 13

Same unit, same day

From Falls Church

All 22 names from Falls Church →

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.