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DAVID SHERMAN STEWART
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
December 16, 1948 – September 5, 1967
Service recordDavid Sherman Stewart, of Peoria, Illinois, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 5, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 4
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
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- December 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Peoria, Illinois (Peoria County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 4
- DAVID ALAN SCHULTZSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- BRAVIE SOTOSergeant · September 5, 1967
- BENJAMIN ANDREW THOMASSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- GARLAND D WHITMORE IIFirst Lieutenant · September 5, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID CLAYTON PHELPSHospitalman · Panel 26E, Line 2
From Peoria
- GARY PAUL BLANDLance Corporal · September 22, 1965
- JAMES RICHARD DISCHERTLance Corporal · October 11, 1965
- ANTHONY EUGENE PENDOLAPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- DANIEL JAMES SOBOTAPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- JOSEPH MYRON WORKMANPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- KIRK IRWIN RILEYCaptain · December 3, 1965
- JOHN HENRY BELLPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- JERRY JACK JOHNSONSecond Lieutenant · June 23, 1966
- HAROLD JOSEPH ALWANLieutenant Colonel · February 27, 1967
- HAROLD EDWARD NULLSpecialist Four · March 24, 1967
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.