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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Wayne Stevens.

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CHARLES WAYNE STEVENS

Private · U.S. Army

May 22, 1937 – October 3, 1965

Service record

Charles Wayne Stevens, of Pensacola, Florida, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on October 3, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 105

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
May 22, 1937
Home of record
Pensacola, Florida (Escambia County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 3, 1965
Age
28
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date October 3, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 105

From Pensacola

All 74 names from Pensacola →

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.