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HOWARD WARREN STEWART
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
July 30, 1930 – June 17, 1968
Service recordHoward Warren Stewart, of Kennesaw, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 17, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 15
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
- July 30, 1930
- Home of record
- Kennesaw, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 15
- STEPHEN WILLIAM SHAWPrivate First Class · June 17, 1968
- NYLES BERNARD SKYLESCorporal · June 17, 1968
- ALLEN SHEFFIELD STROUDCorporal · June 17, 1968
- CLARENCE TOLENTINOStaff Sergeant · June 17, 1968
From Kennesaw
- TIMOTHY JOHN OKEEFEPrivate · April 20, 1968
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.