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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 Peter Lewis Stith.

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PETER LEWIS STITH

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

December 29, 1945 – April 11, 1969

Service record

Peter Lewis Stith, of Bainbridge Island, Washington, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 11, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 27W · Line 60

Position of Panel 27W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Construction Mechanic (CM)
Born
December 29, 1945
Home of record
Bainbridge Island, Washington (Kitsap County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1969
Age
23
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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39 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Bainbridge Island

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.