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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marcus Sherwin Stoen.

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MARCUS SHERWIN STOEN

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

May 9, 1949 – March 14, 1971

Service record

Marcus Sherwin Stoen, of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 14, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 47

Position of Panel 4W 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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
May 9, 1949
Home of record
Pelican Rapids, Minnesota (Otter Tail County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 14, 1971
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date March 14, 1971; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 47

From Pelican Rapids

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.