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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Wayne Douglas Stigen.

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WAYNE DOUGLAS STIGEN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 25, 1949 – May 12, 1969

Service record

Wayne Douglas Stigen, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 91

Position of Panel 25W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
March 25, 1949
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 91

Same unit, same day

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.