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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 William Tunall.

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STANLEY WILLIAM TUNALL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 5, 1945 – October 26, 1967

Service record

Stanley William Tunall, of El Monte, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 26, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 77

Position of Panel 28E 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 (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 5, 1945
Home of record
El Monte, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 26, 1967
Age
22
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Định 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 28E, Line 77

Same unit, same day

From El Monte

All 34 names from El Monte →

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.