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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 Majure Reed.

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STANLEY MAJURE REED

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

December 12, 1949 – February 23, 1969

Service record

Stanley Majure Reed, of Teaneck, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 17

Position of Panel 31W 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 Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Drill Sergeant (00F)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
December 12, 1949
Home of record
Teaneck, New Jersey (Bergen County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 17

From Teaneck

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.