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LEE ROY STAFFORD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 22, 1947 – March 9, 1968
Service recordLee Roy Stafford, of Dudley, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 1
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Dudley, Missouri (Stoddard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
He died in Long An Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 1
- WILBERT STOVALLLance Corporal · March 9, 1968
- HOWARD ALBERT STRAUSBAUGHLance Corporal · March 9, 1968
- JOHN RENFIELD TWOREKPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- KENNETH R WILLIAMS JRCorporal · March 9, 1968
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.