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STANLEY DEAN STRUBLE
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
March 7, 1949 – November 19, 1970
Service recordStanley Dean Struble, of Castana, Iowa, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 72
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 7, 1949
- Home of record
- Castana, Iowa (Monona County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 72
- JUAN JOSE PLAZAPrivate First Class · November 19, 1970
- JAMES C WASHINGTON JRStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1970
- FRANKLIN RANDOLPH AKANASpecialist Five · November 20, 1970
- PHILLIP JOSE BARBACorporal · November 20, 1970
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS RALPH BIERLINESergeant · Panel 6W, Line 70
- JOHN ROBERT GRISARDChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 6W, Line 70
- WILLIAM JOSEPH PERRYMANSpecialist Five · Panel 6W, Line 71
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.