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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stephen M Noggle.

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STEPHEN M NOGGLE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 2, 1946 – June 17, 1967

Service record

Stephen M Noggle, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 17, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 125

Position of Panel 21E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 2, 1946
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 17, 1967
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

68 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 125

Same unit, same day

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.