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MICHAEL EUGENE STEPHENS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 10, 1940 – January 24, 1968
Service recordMichael Eugene Stephens, of Huntington, West Virginia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 24, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Born
- December 10, 1940
- Home of record
- Huntington, West Virginia (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 28
- BILLY LEWIS STRICKLANDCorporal · January 24, 1968
- JAMES RUSSELL WESTPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- CHARLES MOTT WHITE SRPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 1968
- GEORGE DONALD ANDERSONSpecialist Four · January 25, 1968
From Huntington
- GERALD BRUCE ROSESpecialist Five · February 22, 1965
- GLENN MCARTHUR LANEPetty Officer Second Class · October 26, 1965
- JACKIE L WAYMIRESergeant · January 9, 1967
- EMORY LE ROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- RONALD KEITH NEALPetty Officer Third Class · April 21, 1967
- JOHNNY MALCOLM JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 21, 1967
- JAMES RICHARD EMMERTSergeant · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD CRAFTSergeant First Class · September 25, 1967
- LESTER LEE MEADOWS JRSpecialist Four · September 29, 1967
- HARON LEE BROWN IIFirst Lieutenant · December 14, 1967
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.