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STEPHEN JOSEPH PENTA
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
March 10, 1947 – August 12, 1969
Service recordStephen Joseph Penta, of Revere, Massachusetts, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 12, 1969, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 20
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- March 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Revere, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
105 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1969; he was the only one lost in An Xugen Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 20
- HARVEY A PEAYLance Corporal · August 12, 1969
- GEORGE RICHARD PLATTERSpecialist Five · August 12, 1969
- HOWARD MACDONALD PYLE JRCorporal · August 12, 1969
- RONALD GENE QUINNSpecialist Four · August 12, 1969
From Revere
- ALAN JOSEPH OBRIENFirst Lieutenant · September 17, 1966
- ARTHUR RUSSELL LEGROW JRFirst Lieutenant · January 14, 1967
- ROBERT LAWRENCE BLAISPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1969
- WALTER STANLEY OLINSKY JRWarrant Officer 1 · September 16, 1969
- JAMES LOVES DELMONTSergeant Major · June 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.