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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley M Jamrock.

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STANLEY M JAMROCK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 17, 1943 – February 15, 1968

Service record

Stanley M Jamrock, of Rochester, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 15, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39E · Line 48

Position of Panel 39E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 17, 1943
Home of record
Rochester, New York (Monroe County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 15, 1968
Age
24
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định 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 Bình Định 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 48

Same unit, same day

From Rochester

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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.