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DON EDDIE STEVENSON
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
May 26, 1940 – December 4, 1969
Service recordDon Eddie Stevenson, of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 4, 1969, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 25
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
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Born
- May 26, 1940
- Home of record
- New Orleans, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1969; two of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 25
- LOUIS DALE PALLAYELance Corporal · December 4, 1969
- EMORY LEE REASpecialist Four · December 4, 1969
- EDWARD ROWE SMILEY JRSpecialist Four · December 4, 1969
- JOSE A VELEZ-HERNANDEZSpecialist Five · December 4, 1969
From New Orleans
- GEORGE EDWARD FLYNN IIICaptain · September 23, 1964
- HARRY EMILUS ROWLEYSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- EPHRON WALLACE JRSpecialist Four · October 5, 1965
- ROBERT ANGELO SOLORZANOLance Corporal · November 3, 1965
- CARL STEPHEN DANIELSPrivate First Class · November 4, 1965
- HERMAN LOUIS JEFFERSON JRSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- EARL DUBOIS AULLSecond Lieutenant · November 17, 1965
- LAVINE JOHN BANKSSergeant · November 17, 1965
- JOHNNY WILLIAM BOUINGTONPrivate First Class · November 25, 1965
- RONALD FRANCIS RODMajor · December 4, 1965
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.