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STEPHEN DYER JEWETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 14, 1942 – December 27, 1965
Service recordStephen Dyer Jewett, of East Andover, New Hampshire, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 41
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 14, 1942
- Home of record
- East Andover, New Hampshire (Merrimack County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1965
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 41
- WILLIAM FLOYD BROWNPrivate First Class · December 27, 1965
- JOHN JOSEPH CARLONE IIPrivate · December 27, 1965
- WILLARD FRANCIS ELDERSergeant · December 27, 1965
- JAMES CLIFTON GUILLORYSpecialist Four · December 27, 1965
Same unit, same day
- JOHN JOSEPH CARLONE IIPrivate · Panel 4E, Line 41
- JAMES CLIFTON GUILLORYSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 41
- CHARLES RICHARD KIERPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 42
- PAUL CLIVE O TAYLORPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 42
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.