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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Charle Stephens JR.

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ARTHUR CHARLE STEPHENS JR

Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Marine Corps

August 26, 1927 – May 16, 1971

Service record

Arthur Charle Stephens JR, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 16, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 38

Position of Panel 3W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Motor Transport Officer (I) (3502)
Born
August 26, 1927
Home of record
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 16, 1971
Age
43
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 38

From Milwaukee

All 204 names from Milwaukee →

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.