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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 Raymond Edward Stone JR.

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RAYMOND EDWARD STONE JR

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

November 21, 1946 – December 14, 1967

Service record

Raymond Edward Stone JR, of Reno, Nevada, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 94

Position of Panel 31E 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 21, 1946
Home of record
Reno, Nevada (Washoe County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 14, 1967
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 94

Same unit, same day

From Reno

All 25 names from Reno →

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.