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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mack Donald Stainback JR.

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MACK DONALD STAINBACK JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 1, 1944 – March 5, 1966

Service record

Mack Donald Stainback JR, of Dolphin, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 125

Position of Panel 5E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
September 1, 1944
Home of record
Dolphin, Virginia (Brunswick County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 5, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

72 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 125

Same unit, same day

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.