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PETER JOSEPH STEWART
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
August 12, 1918 – March 15, 1966
Service recordPeter Joseph Stewart, of Winter Haven, Florida, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on March 15, 1966, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 12
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 8 TFW
- Born
- August 12, 1918
- Home of record
- Winter Haven, Florida (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 15, 1966
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “8 TFW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 6E, Line 12
- MARTIN RONALD SCOTTColonel · March 15, 1966
- GEORGE EDWARD SNODGRASSSpecialist Four · March 15, 1966
- ALLAN STEGALL JRPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- DORSEY L TATUMSpecialist Four · March 15, 1966
Same unit, same day
- MARTIN RONALD SCOTTColonel · Panel 6E, Line 12
From Winter Haven
- GERALD EVERETT OLSONMajor · March 13, 1966
- RICHARD E HOOD JRFirst Lieutenant · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM FORMAN ABERNETHYCaptain · July 21, 1967
- JACKIE LEE MELTONPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- BILLIE RAY MCCALLSergeant · February 22, 1968
- MAURICE LEO SIROISSergeant · February 29, 1968
- EDWARD ULYSES MASTERSPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- MICHAEL BARRY OCONNORLance Corporal · May 1, 1968
- HERBERT MARSHALL ALLENSergeant · June 19, 1968
- JOHN HULSEY HAYSCaptain · November 8, 1968
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.