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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley L Sapp.

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STANLEY L SAPP

Captain · U.S. Army

April 29, 1929 – December 4, 1965

Service record

Stanley L Sapp, of Amarillo, Texas, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 124

Position of Panel 3E 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
April 29, 1929
Home of record
Amarillo, Texas (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 4, 1965
Age
36
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 124

From Amarillo

All 52 names from Amarillo →

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.