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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clement Olin Stevenson JR.

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CLEMENT OLIN STEVENSON JR

Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy

March 11, 1942 – June 17, 1966

Service record

Clement Olin Stevenson JR, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 17, 1966, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 58

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Url Pilot (1310)
Unit (as recorded)
7 FLT
Born
March 11, 1942
Home of record
Ridgewood, New Jersey (Bergen County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 17, 1966
Age
24
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 58

From Ridgewood

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.