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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lloyd Isaac Stephens.

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LLOYD ISAAC STEPHENS

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 21, 1944 – March 2, 1967

Service record

Lloyd Isaac Stephens, of Washington, District of Columbia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 5

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
December 21, 1944
Home of record
Washington, District of Columbia (District Of Columbia County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 2, 1967
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From Washington

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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.