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STEPHEN HAMILTON ADAMS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 19, 1949 – March 16, 1968
Service recordStephen Hamilton Adams, of Clarksville, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 16, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 64
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Clarksville, Maryland (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 44E, Line 64
- DOUGLAS ROBERT MOHRMANNLance Corporal · March 15, 1968
- DAVID REESE YOUNG JRSecond Lieutenant · March 15, 1968
- CARL TURNER ADAMSSergeant First Class · March 16, 1968
- JOHN BERNARD AHERNSpecialist Four · March 16, 1968
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.