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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bobby Dale Stevenson.

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BOBBY DALE STEVENSON

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

June 13, 1934 – October 8, 1967

Service record

Bobby Dale Stevenson, of Pontiac, Michigan, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 8, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 76

Position of Panel 27E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
2 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
June 13, 1934
Home of record
Pontiac, Michigan (Oakland County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 8, 1967
Age
33
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 76

From Pontiac

All 47 names from Pontiac →

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.