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STEPHEN DAVID LYNN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 16, 1949 – December 3, 1969
Service recordStephen David Lynn, of Albertville, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 22
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Albertville, Alabama (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 22
- JOHNNY RAY GILLINGSPrivate First Class · December 3, 1969
- ROGER LEE HUNDTSergeant · December 3, 1969
- GORDON JOSEPH NORMANPrivate First Class · December 3, 1969
- MICHAEL WAYNE PRENGELSpecialist Four · December 3, 1969
From Albertville
- RAYMOND CLARENCE WALDROPPrivate First Class · October 19, 1968
- BILLY WAYNE DUKESpecialist Four · March 28, 1969
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.