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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael David Stevens.

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MICHAEL DAVID STEVENS

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

April 18, 1947 – May 3, 1969

Service record

Michael David Stevens, of Aumsville, Oregon, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 3, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 108

Position of Panel 26W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Born
April 18, 1947
Home of record
Aumsville, Oregon (Marion County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 3, 1969
Age
22
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1969; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 108

From Aumsville

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.