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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 John Melnick.

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STEPHEN JOHN MELNICK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 5, 1944 – September 17, 1967

Service record

Stephen John Melnick, of Southport, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 26E · Line 85

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
504 MP BN 16 MP GRP 18 MP BDE
Born
December 5, 1944
Home of record
Southport, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 17, 1967
Age
22
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 26E, Line 85

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.