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STEPHEN CORNELL BRUNTON
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 4, 1948 – August 18, 1968
Service recordStephen Cornell Brunton, of Ukiah, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 18, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 38
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
- Born
- July 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Ukiah, California (Mendocino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1968; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 38
- WILLARD GORDON BELLOMYSpecialist Four · August 18, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES BIENEMANPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- GEORGE ALLEN BRANCHLance Corporal · August 18, 1968
- DANIEL CARDENAS JRLance Corporal · August 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD ROBINSO DARVILLE IIIPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 48W, Line 39
- PATRICK JOSEPH GRIFFINPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 48W, Line 41
- BILLY DUANE ROYPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 48W, Line 47
From Ukiah
- EDMUND HENRY FRENYEAMaster Chief Petty Officer · January 22, 1966
- RONALD LEMON WAFFORDLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- DENNIS PAUL DUNSINGPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
- DONALD GLENN ARMSTRONGSergeant First Class · April 2, 1970
- JEFFREY SCOTT WESOLOWSKISpecialist Four · June 19, 1971
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.