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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William David Stirrup.

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WILLIAM DAVID STIRRUP

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

March 29, 1943 – May 15, 1968

Service record

William David Stirrup, of New York, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 61E · Line 3

Position of Panel 61E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Finance Disbursing Officer (6201)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 29, 1943
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1968
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 61E, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.