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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Roy Uding.

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STANLEY ROY UDING

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 7, 1941 – October 5, 1967

Service record

Stanley Roy Uding, of San Pablo, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 5, 1967, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 56

Position of Panel 27E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 7, 1941
Home of record
San Pablo, California (Contra Costa County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 5, 1967
Age
25
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date October 5, 1967; three of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 56

Same unit, same day

From San Pablo

All 13 names from San Pablo →

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.