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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Leo Stewart.

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PAUL LEO STEWART

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 14, 1927 – February 22, 1967

Service record

Paul Leo Stewart, of Lowell, Massachusetts, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 76

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 14, 1927
Home of record
Lowell, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1967
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 76

Same unit, same day

From Lowell

All 21 names from Lowell →

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.