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STERLING AIDEN WALL
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 23, 1942 – August 24, 1967
Service recordSterling Aiden Wall, of Brookline, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 40
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 23, 1942
- Home of record
- Brookline, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 25E, Line 40
- FRANK EDWARD PETRICKLance Corporal · August 24, 1967
- WILLIAM EUGENE RODKEYCorporal · August 24, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN SCHELLMajor · August 24, 1967
- MANUEL GUTIERREZ YBARRAPrivate First Class · August 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES FREDERICK GODSEYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 25E, Line 37
From Brookline
- DANA E BRANNWarrant Officer 1 · November 16, 1965
- DAVID J WAXFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1965
- DAVID LOWELL SIMONStaff Sergeant · January 4, 1968
- ARTHUR PATRICK MURPHY JRLance Corporal · July 20, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN MERCERFirst Lieutenant · August 30, 1968
- DENNIS CONRYPrivate First Class · April 30, 1969
- DEVERTON C COCHRANESergeant First Class · June 17, 1970
- ROBERT DOUGLAS HAUERCaptain · September 5, 1970
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.