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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 Manford Dalvis Stewart.

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MANFORD DALVIS STEWART

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 15, 1942 – September 4, 1967

Service record

Manford Dalvis Stewart, of Owensboro, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 4, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 111

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
January 15, 1942
Home of record
Owensboro, Kentucky (Daviess County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 4, 1967
Age
25
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date September 4, 1967; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 111

Same unit, same day

From Owensboro

All 29 names from Owensboro →

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.