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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Joseph Egan.

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STANLEY JOSEPH EGAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 27, 1949 – November 23, 1969

Service record

Stanley Joseph Egan, of Saugus, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 111

Position of Panel 16W 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)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 27, 1949
Home of record
Saugus, Massachusetts (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 23, 1969
Age
20
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1969; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 111

Same unit, same day

From Saugus

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.