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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 Eugene Redmon.

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STANLEY EUGENE REDMON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 12, 1950 – February 15, 1971

Service record

Stanley Eugene Redmon, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 15, 1971, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5W · Line 108

Position of Panel 5W 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
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
March 12, 1950
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 15, 1971
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5W, Line 108

Same unit, same day

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.