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DONNY RAY STEWART
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 13, 1948 – September 21, 1968
Service recordDonny Ray Stewart, of Homestead, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 21, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 59
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- November 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Homestead, Florida (Dade County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 59
- JAMES LEO WARNERSergeant First Class · September 21, 1968
- DAVID LEE WHITESpecialist Four · September 21, 1968
- MICHAEL NILE ANDERSENPrivate First Class · September 22, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID ARMSTRONGPrivate · September 22, 1968
From Homestead
- RICHARD HUGH CASSUBESergeant · February 22, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS TERRYSpecialist Five · February 26, 1966
- DOUGLAS JOHN WEISSPrivate First Class · May 6, 1966
- WILLIE DONALD JONESSpecialist Four · January 10, 1967
- ERNEST LEON HURDPrivate First Class · June 23, 1967
- DANNY R AYERSSergeant · September 14, 1968
- BRIAN RANDALL FREDRICKCorporal · January 12, 1969
- CHARLES CRAIG VICKREYSpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
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.