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MARK JOHN STEPHANAC
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 28, 1947 – September 14, 1969
Service recordMark John Stephanac, of Garfield, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 14, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 87
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
- Occupation
- Engineer Tracked Vehicle Crewman (12F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Garfield, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 14, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date September 14, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 87
- DEWEY VERN RAYPrivate First Class · September 14, 1969
- THOMAS LYNN SNYDERSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
- GARY KELVIN STANFIELDSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
- LARRY EUGENE SWEETSergeant · September 14, 1969
From Garfield
- JOSEPH STEPHEN LAFASOSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JOHN PAUL BARSCHSpecialist Four · December 27, 1967
- KENNETH FRANCIS SCHORNDORFSpecialist Four · April 2, 1968
- TYRONE HILLPrivate · May 12, 1968
- CRAIG JESSE DEVORESergeant · July 8, 1968
- ANTHONY MANGANELLO JRLance Corporal · August 28, 1968
- JOSEPH MORRIGGISpecialist Four · July 13, 1969
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.