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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Joseph Yurewicz.

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STANLEY JOSEPH YUREWICZ

Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

March 22, 1945 – November 30, 1967

Service record

Stanley Joseph Yurewicz, of Framingham, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 30, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 20

Position of Panel 31E 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. Air Force
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Born
March 22, 1945
Home of record
Framingham, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1967
Age
22
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 23 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 20

From Framingham

All 13 names from Framingham →

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.