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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harry Ray Stewart.

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HARRY RAY STEWART

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 3, 1941 – March 10, 1967

Service record

Harry Ray Stewart, of Johnson City, Tennessee, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1967, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 55

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 3, 1941
Home of record
Johnson City, Tennessee (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1967
Age
25
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 55

From Johnson City

All 33 names from Johnson City →

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.