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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Richard Gleisinger.

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STANLEY RICHARD GLEISINGER

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

July 21, 1944 – November 26, 1966

Service record

Stanley Richard Gleisinger, of Mansfield, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 26, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 124

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supply Administrative Man - Manual Accounting (3041)
Unit (as recorded)
3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
July 21, 1944
Home of record
Mansfield, Ohio (Richland County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 26, 1966
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 124

From Mansfield

All 33 names from Mansfield →

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.