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STANLEY DENNIS ROSS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 13, 1949 – October 20, 1969
Service recordStanley Dennis Ross, of Mt Pleasant, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 20, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 98
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Mt Pleasant, Iowa (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 20, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 98
- JOSE ESPIRIDION ORTIZPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
- LARRY STERL POLINGPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
- MICHAEL RAY SAMPLESpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
- ARNOLD RAYMOND SCHUHPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BENNY CHARLES JACKSONPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 97
From Mt Pleasant
- MICHAEL DONALD OCONNORSpecialist Four · June 22, 1967
- MANZELLE ALAN FORDPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- CHARLES CLAUDE MILLERLance Corporal · April 4, 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.