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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 Stanley Allen Jackson.

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STANLEY ALLEN JACKSON

Private · U.S. Army

March 2, 1948 – February 24, 1971

Service record

Stanley Allen Jackson, of New York, New York, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on February 24, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 2

Position of Panel 4W 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
March 2, 1948
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 24, 1971
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date February 24, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In February 1971, 387 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 68 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 2

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.