Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11C – Indirect Fire Infantryman
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 19-Sep-1945
Hometown: Westphalia, Kansas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 9-Nov-1965
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 25-May-1967
Date of casualty: 25-May-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Edward Arnold Stahl was on combat operation when hit by fragments from a hostile mortar round.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Wendle Clyde Davis
SP4 Edward Arnold Stahl
Location of fatality: Quang Tin, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Saint Teresa‘s Cemetery, Westphalia, Kansas, USA
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