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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Lloyd Grunstad.

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STANLEY LLOYD GRUNSTAD

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 21, 1947 – July 19, 1968

Service record

Stanley Lloyd Grunstad, of Everett, Washington, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 51W · Line 10

Position of Panel 51W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
April 21, 1947
Home of record
Everett, Washington (Snohomish County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 19, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 51W, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Everett

All 30 names from Everett →

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.