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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Stewart Fenner.

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STANLEY STEWART FENNER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 13, 1945 – July 8, 1969

Service record

Stanley Stewart Fenner, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 82

Position of Panel 21W 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
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
November 13, 1945
Home of record
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 8, 1969
Age
23
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 82

Same unit, same day

From Bethlehem

All 32 names from Bethlehem →

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.