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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 Ronald Lee Stapelman.

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RONALD LEE STAPELMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 16, 1945 – June 10, 1967

Service record

Ronald Lee Stapelman, of Paul, Idaho, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 21E · Line 84

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Radio And Communications Security Repairer (35E)
Born
March 16, 1945
Home of record
Paul, Idaho (Minidoka County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 10, 1967
Age
22
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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18 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1967; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Paul

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.