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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 Philip Clarence Stein.

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PHILIP CLARENCE STEIN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 10, 1945 – April 4, 1969

Service record

Philip Clarence Stein, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 13

Position of Panel 27W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 10, 1945
Home of record
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 4, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 13

Same unit, same day

From Milwaukee

All 204 names from Milwaukee →

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.