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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Monte Thomas Sloan.

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MONTE THOMAS SLOAN

Captain · U.S. Army

January 10, 1937 – December 10, 1966

Service record

Monte Thomas Sloan, of St Cloud, Minnesota, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 30

Position of Panel 13E 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Nuclear Weapons Employment Specialist (50421)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
January 10, 1937
Home of record
St Cloud, Minnesota (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 10, 1966
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 56 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 30

Same unit, same day

From St Cloud

All 14 names from St Cloud →

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.