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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 Stephen Carl Sharp.

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STEPHEN CARL SHARP

Fireman · U.S. Navy

April 5, 1947 – November 29, 1966

Service record

Stephen Carl Sharp, of Houston, Texas, served as a Fireman in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 29, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 130

Position of Panel 12E 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. Navy
Rank
Fireman (FN)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Fireman (FN)
Unit (as recorded)
USS TOM GREEN COUNTY LST 1159
Born
April 5, 1947
Home of record
Houston, Texas (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1966
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1966; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 130

From Houston

All 358 names from Houston →

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.