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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 Smith.

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STANLEY RICHARD SMITH

Major · U.S. Marine Corps

August 3, 1937 – May 11, 1968

Service record

Stanley Richard Smith, of Marshalltown, Iowa, served as a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 58E · Line 26

Position of Panel 58E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineer Officer (I) (1302)
Born
August 3, 1937
Home of record
Marshalltown, Iowa (Marshall County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 11, 1968
Age
30
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

54 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 58E, Line 26

From Marshalltown

All 12 names from Marshalltown →

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.