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STEPHEN DOUGLAS LANGLER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 20, 1949 – December 11, 1968
Service recordStephen Douglas Langler, of Muskegon, Michigan, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 3
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Muskegon, Michigan (Muskegon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 36W, Line 3
- GERALD CURTIS HOAGELance Corporal · December 11, 1968
- JAKE EDWARD HURSTSergeant · December 11, 1968
- ROBERT EDGAR LACKEYPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- PAUL EDWARD SCHMIDTSpecialist Four · December 11, 1968
From Muskegon
- LOUIS KENNETH KANAARCaptain · January 9, 1966
- RICHARD NORMAN GEREAUCaptain · March 5, 1966
- DONALD LEWIS KINGColonel · May 14, 1966
- JAMES ALLEN TAZELAARPrivate First Class · June 28, 1966
- DANIEL LEE EARLENBAUGHSpecialist Four · August 26, 1966
- ROBERT GAYLE DAVISONSergeant · December 17, 1966
- JAMES HARVEY HOPSONPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- ANTONIO RAMON PONCEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1967
- GERALD RAY HENDRICKSONCorporal · November 26, 1967
- DAVID ORVILLE KAMPCorporal · December 27, 1967
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.