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STANLEY EUGENE WATSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 13, 1947 – February 11, 1968
Service recordStanley Eugene Watson, of Anderson, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 1
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 First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Anderson, California (Shasta County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; seven of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 232 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 1
- FLOYD VOYLESPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- JOHN KEVIN WOODSFirst Lieutenant · February 11, 1968
- MICHAEL MORRIS ALLEYSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- CHARLES EUGENE YOUNGBLOODSergeant · February 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GIVEN WEST BRADLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 75
- PETER ALAN HILLPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 77
- RICHARD LEE SORENSENPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 81
- FRANK LOUIS STECPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 81
From Anderson
- PAUL JOSEPH SIMONCaptain · December 14, 1965
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.