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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Carl Fuller.

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STANLEY CARL FULLER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 12, 1947 – December 12, 1968

Service record

Stanley Carl Fuller, of Fullerton, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 11

Position of Panel 36W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
July 12, 1947
Home of record
Fullerton, California (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 12, 1968
Age
21
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 11

From Fullerton

All 30 names from Fullerton →

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.