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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 Tommy Gene Stover.

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TOMMY GENE STOVER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 28, 1946 – January 2, 1968

Service record

Tommy Gene Stover, of Wilmington, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 24

Position of Panel 33E 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)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 28, 1946
Home of record
Wilmington, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 2, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 24

Same unit, same day

From Wilmington

All 17 names from Wilmington →

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.