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PAUL FRANCIS STEDMAN
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 2, 1949 – February 26, 1968
Service recordPaul Francis Stedman, of Lakeland, Florida, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 44
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineer Equipment Operator (1345)
- Born
- January 2, 1949
- Home of record
- Lakeland, Florida (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 44
- ROY STEPHEN SPURGEONPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
- JOHN LEONARD STEWARTPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
- MILES BOYD STUARTPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
- RANSOM LEE STUCKPrivate · February 26, 1968
From Lakeland
- DONALD FREDERICK WEINMANSergeant · January 13, 1966
- DORSE RIGGSStaff Sergeant · March 30, 1966
- KENNETH RAY TEMPLESCorporal · June 19, 1966
- JAMES ROY PEARSONSergeant · November 4, 1966
- JOHN ANDREW SCHOLLARDPrivate First Class · January 9, 1967
- ISUM MERRILL WALKERCorporal · April 10, 1967
- JAMES HARRELL WALLERSergeant · May 13, 1967
- WILLIE GENE DYERCorporal · June 3, 1967
- CHARLES FREDERICK BUFFPrivate First Class · June 6, 1967
- CHARLES R PITTSFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 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.