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ARNOLD LEE STEWART
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 16, 1947 – May 5, 1968
Service recordArnold Lee Stewart, of Baker, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 32
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Baker, West Virginia (Hardy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 115 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 32
- LOUIS LEON SPEERPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- ROBERT L SPRINGERFirst Lieutenant · May 5, 1968
- DONALD RAY STEPHENSONSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- BRUCE WAYNE TABORPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARRY RAYMOND CHAPMANSergeant · Panel 55E, Line 5
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.