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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 Joshua B Stewart.

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JOSHUA B STEWART

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

November 21, 1943 – March 15, 1973

Service record

Joshua B Stewart, of St Louis Park, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1973, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 125

Position of Panel 18W 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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Born
November 21, 1943
Home of record
St Louis Park, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 15, 1973
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1973. In March 1973, 1 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 125

From St Louis Park

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.