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STANLEY TURNER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 3, 1948 – May 24, 1969
Service recordStanley Turner, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 99
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 19 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- August 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 99
- RICHARD MARTIN SCHNAKEFirst Lieutenant · May 24, 1969
- CECIL FRANKLIN TAYLORStaff Sergeant · May 24, 1969
- GARY CHESTER TOWLECorporal · May 24, 1969
- JACKIE WAYNE TROGLENStaff Sergeant · May 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MARK WILLIAM FENNERSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 94
- ELMER EUGENE FIELDSPrivate · Panel 24W, Line 94
- DAVID ALLEN HARGENSPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 95
- GARY ARNOLD NEAVORSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 97
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.