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RICHARD JOHN STEWART
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 3, 1945 – March 12, 1968
Service recordRichard John Stewart, of East Lebanon, Maine, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 12, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 31
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Combat Photographer/Motion Media (4671)
- Born
- May 3, 1945
- Home of record
- East Lebanon, Maine (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 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 44E, Line 31
- ESTEL DENNY SPAKESSergeant First Class · March 12, 1968
- JOHN RICHARD STROHMAIERSergeant · March 12, 1968
- CARLOS V TREVINOStaff Sergeant · March 12, 1968
- FRANCISCO LUIS VALLESergeant First Class · March 12, 1968
From East Lebanon
- ROBERT LEE BAKERMajor · November 27, 1970
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.