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STEPHEN CRAWFORD JONES
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 13, 1944 – March 8, 1968
Service recordStephen Crawford Jones, of Watchung, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 56
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Watchung, New Jersey (Somerset County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 56
- DONALD ERNEST JONESPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- GUY THOMAS JONESSergeant · March 8, 1968
- JOHNNY JUERGEN JUNKINSCorporal · March 8, 1968
- WAYNE MINOR KIDWELLSergeant · March 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD FRANK HEYMACHPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 54
From Watchung
- DONALD PETER LINDSLEYSpecialist Four · April 30, 1967
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.