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DAVID WAYNE STEWART
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 15, 1946 – June 11, 1966
Service recordDavid Wayne Stewart, of Fountain Run, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 40
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 15, 1946
- Home of record
- Fountain Run, Kentucky (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 8E, Line 40
- JESSIE EDWIN SHANNONPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- CHARLES H SHELTONSpecialist Four · June 11, 1966
- RALPH SIMONPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- MICHAEL THEODORE SUKARAPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
Same unit, same day
- RALPH SIMONPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 40
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.