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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Martin Stockfeder.

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MARTIN STOCKFEDER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 22, 1939 – July 15, 1964

Service record

Martin Stockfeder, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 58

Position of Panel 1E 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)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
August 22, 1939
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 15, 1964
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1964. In July 1964, 17 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 58

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.