VIETNAM - SCHROEDER, STANLEY A

Schroeder, Stanley A

VIETNAM - SCHROEDER, STANLEY A
SCHROEDER, STANLEY A

Rank: Private First Class

Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist

Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge

Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device

Enlisted by: Regular

Date of birth: 18-Jun-1949

Hometown: Los Angeles, California

Marital status: Never Married

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Start of tour: 5-Feb-1968

Incident date: 19-May-1968

Date of casualty: 19-May-1968

Age at death: 18

Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Stanley A. Schroeder died from wound received while driver of military vehicle on combat operation when vehicle hit hostile booby trap.

Four Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Donnie Biarum
SP4 Dwight Earl Hinman
PFC Stanley A. Schroeder
SP4 George Owen Spangler

Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, XT 515 006

Place of interment: Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 63E 018 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)