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STEPHEN FREDRICK TURNER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 14, 1946 – June 18, 1968
Service recordStephen Fredrick Turner, of Largo, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 30
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- August 14, 1946
- Home of record
- Largo, Florida (Pinellas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 30
- CHARLES LEE COLLEPSSergeant · June 17, 1968
- RITO SILVALance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- MARK ANDREW WENZELWarrant Officer 1 · June 18, 1968
- DONALD EMERY WHITERSLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- DANIEL ANDREW WITKOPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
From Largo
- HARRY JOSEPH SHEPHERD JRSergeant · November 20, 1966
- JEFFERY DALE BOUTONPetty Officer Third Class · April 21, 1967
- DAVID ALLEN STEPHENSSergeant · June 22, 1967
- REID CARLTON ARNOLDCorporal · September 6, 1967
- DENNIS DEAN LOFTHEIMFirst Lieutenant · September 9, 1967
- HOWARD WILLIAM SNITCHLERPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
- FRANKLIN IVAN BURRIS JRCorporal · August 9, 1968
- DOUGLAS WAYNE MCPHEEPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
- WILLIAM JOSEPH GOLDENSpecialist Four · May 10, 1970
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.