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STANLEY RAY GILMORE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 12, 1948 – December 20, 1968
Service recordStanley Ray Gilmore, of Butler, Missouri, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 50
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Power Generation Equipment Repairer (52D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Butler, Missouri (Bates County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 50
- RAPHEAL JOHN FROSTSpecialist Four · December 20, 1968
- ALBERT BRUNO GERDES JRPrivate First Class · December 20, 1968
- DOUGLAS JOHN HAAN JRCorporal · December 20, 1968
- DARRELL LYNN HAGGARDWarrant Officer 1 · December 20, 1968
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.