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MARION HENRY STANLEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 5, 1938 – September 2, 1971
Service recordMarion Henry Stanley, of Grand Ridge, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 8
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
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 5, 1938
- Home of record
- Grand Ridge, Florida (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1971
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Stroke
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1971; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 8
- WILLIAM KENNETH AUSTINSpecialist Four · September 2, 1971
- GERALD ARTHUR DAVISSpecialist Four · September 2, 1971
- GORDON LEE KIMMELSpecialist Four · September 2, 1971
- RICHARD RUSS JRSergeant · September 2, 1971
From Grand Ridge
- RONALD DAVID EDENFIELDPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
- ROYCE HORACE ADAMSTechnical Sergeant · April 14, 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.