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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stuart Marshall Binkley.

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STUART MARSHALL BINKLEY

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 2, 1947 – June 28, 1971

Service record

Stuart Marshall Binkley, of Flint, Michigan, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 91

Position of Panel 3W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
October 2, 1947
Home of record
Flint, Michigan (Genesee County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1971
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 91

Same unit, same day

From Flint

All 102 names from Flint →

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.