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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Aaron Stone.

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PAUL AARON STONE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 29, 1939 – January 14, 1969

Service record

Paul Aaron Stone, of Williamsport, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 14, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 2

Position of Panel 34W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 29, 1939
Home of record
Williamsport, Ohio (Pickaway County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 14, 1969
Age
29
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date January 14, 1969; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 2

Same unit, same day

From Williamsport

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.