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ROBERT DUANE STEPANOV
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 13, 1939 – July 5, 1965
Service recordRobert Duane Stepanov, of Akron, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 5, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- November 13, 1939
- Home of record
- Akron, Ohio (Summit County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 5, 1965
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1965. In July 1965, 103 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 28
- ALLEN LEE HOLTChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 5, 1965
- HENRY ALFRED MUSA JRSergeant First Class · July 5, 1965
- JOHN PATRICK BURNSPrivate First Class · July 7, 1965
- RUDOLPH VILLALP HERNANDEZPrivate · July 7, 1965
Same unit, same day
- BRYAN EUGENE GROGANSecond Lieutenant · Panel 2E, Line 27
From Akron
- PAUL R HELTSLEY IIIPrivate First Class · July 17, 1964
- ANDREW MILLARD KEACaptain · May 16, 1965
- GEORGE HOWARD FRAZEE JRSergeant · May 28, 1965
- FRANK WILLARD WILSONCorporal · June 6, 1965
- RICHARD WEBSTERSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- WAYNE HULEN ROWLANDPrivate First Class · April 17, 1966
- RICHARD DOUGLAS HOGARTHFirst Lieutenant · May 6, 1966
- JOSEPH STANLEY VESELY JRSpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- JAMES QUINEL AYDLETTFirst Lieutenant · July 11, 1966
- CLIFFORD LEE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · July 20, 1966
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.