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CLAUDE JOSEPH STEIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 21, 1947 – December 8, 1967
Service recordClaude Joseph Stein, of Vacherie, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 67
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Vacherie, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 67
- DAVID ARLINGTON TANNERSergeant · December 8, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD THIELSpecialist Four · December 8, 1967
- CHARLES DAVID WILKIEMajor · December 8, 1967
- JOHN PATRICK FLOOD JRSergeant · December 9, 1967
From Vacherie
- IRVING JOHN BROWN JRSergeant · October 14, 1971
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.