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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stephen Allison Allsopp.

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STEPHEN ALLISON ALLSOPP

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 2, 1947 – May 6, 1968

Service record

Stephen Allison Allsopp, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 55E · Line 38

Position of Panel 55E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Telecommunications Operator-Maintainer (74C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
January 2, 1947
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 6, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 55E, Line 38

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.