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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert Stephen Graf.

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ALBERT STEPHEN GRAF

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 8, 1944 – August 29, 1969

Service record

Albert Stephen Graf, of Bogota, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 29, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 18W · Line 6

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Frs Basic Ea-6a/B Electronic Warfare Officer (I) (7582)
Unit (as recorded)
VMFA 542 MAG 11 1 MAW FMF
Born
September 8, 1944
Home of record
Bogota, New Jersey (Bergen County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 29, 1969
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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From Bogota

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.