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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stephen Edward Warren.

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STEPHEN EDWARD WARREN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 2, 1950 – February 1, 1971

Service record

Stephen Edward Warren, of Rochester, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 1, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5W · Line 72

Position of Panel 5W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
August 2, 1950
Home of record
Rochester, New York (Monroe County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 1, 1971
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date February 1, 1971; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5W, Line 72

Same unit, same day

From Rochester

All 107 names from Rochester →

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.