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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Mitchell Stever.

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JAMES MITCHELL STEVER

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

July 6, 1944 – October 31, 1972

Service record

James Mitchell Stever, of Visalia, California, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on October 31, 1972, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1W · Line 87

Position of Panel 1W 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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
July 6, 1944
Home of record
Visalia, California (Tulare County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 31, 1972
Age
28
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1972. In October 1972, 65 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1W, Line 87

Same unit, same day

From Visalia

All 12 names from Visalia →

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.