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SAM EUGENE STOUT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 9, 1925 – August 23, 1970
Service recordSam Eugene Stout, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 44. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 134 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 134
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
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- December 9, 1925
- Home of record
- Elizabethton, Tennessee (Carter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1970
- Age
- 44
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1970; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 134
- ROBERT DAWSON ROTHER JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1970
- ROBERT GARLAND SIMES JRSpecialist Four · August 23, 1970
- EVERETT EARL WELLS JRSergeant · August 23, 1970
- JOHN FREDRICK WERNERSpecialist Five · August 23, 1970
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND SANDERS BRAMWELLSpecialist Five · Panel 8W, Line 132
- CLARENCE BROWNSpecialist Four · Panel 8W, Line 132
From Elizabethton
- CHARLES EDWARD FULTONAirman First Class · January 2, 1965
- JAMES MITCHELL CORNETTPrivate First Class · March 24, 1966
- DALE ALONZO JOHNSONMajor · October 27, 1966
- GARY MURRAYSpecialist Four · May 24, 1967
- WILLIAM JACK WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 27, 1967
- JOHN PAUL AVERYLance Corporal · October 14, 1967
- BILLY JOE ELLISStaff Sergeant · January 3, 1968
- ROBERT LEE SHAFFERLance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- THOMAS CHARLES TREADWAYSpecialist Five · August 12, 1968
- ROY HASKEL WILSONCaptain · October 22, 1968
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.