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RONALD JOSEPH STILLEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 27, 1938 – March 2, 1968
Service recordRonald Joseph Stilley, of Library, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 42
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 27, 1938
- Home of record
- Library, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
100 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1968; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 68 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 42
- CLIFFORD GEOFFRE STOCKTONPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- DANNY MIRE STONEKINGPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- DANNY GEORGE SWAZICKCorporal · March 2, 1968
- NEIL STEWART THOMPSONCorporal · March 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANTHONY JOSEPH BREUERPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 28
- JUNIUS COLUMBUS COLLIERSpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 29
- TONY SYLVESTER OLIVERSpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 38
- DANA HYLAND ROESNERPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 40
From Library
- WILLIAM SCOTTSpecialist Four · November 12, 1969
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.