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RAYMOND CLARK STACKS
Captain · U.S. Army
March 6, 1948 – July 8, 1968
Service recordRaymond Clark Stacks, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He was lost on July 8, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 14
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
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- July 8, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1968. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37W, Line 14
- KLAUS DIETER SCHOLZSergeant First Class · August 25, 1968
- DONALD DAVID PANNOSergeant · November 30, 1968
- LEE VICTOR PORDEN JRPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- GEORGE STEPHEN STRASZEWSKIPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.