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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Rocky Wohlman.

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STANLEY ROCKY WOHLMAN

Sergeant Major · U.S. Army

September 26, 1929 – August 10, 1968

Service record

Stanley Rocky Wohlman, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant Major in the U.S. Army. He died on August 10, 1968, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49W · Line 45

Position of Panel 49W 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
Sergeant Major (SGM)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Senior Sergeant (11G)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
September 26, 1929
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 10, 1968
Age
38
Province
Chau Doc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date August 10, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 49W, Line 45

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.