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STEPHEN KEALOHA RAMOS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 15, 1951 – June 30, 1970
Service recordStephen Kealoha Ramos, of Honolulu, Hawaii, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 106
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 15, 1951
- Home of record
- Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 30, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1970; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 9W, Line 106
- STEPHEN LOUIS KLEINSpecialist Four · June 30, 1970
- JIMMIE FLOYD NABOURSWarrant Officer 1 · June 30, 1970
- LESTER EUGENE PARKERPrivate First Class · June 30, 1970
- ANDREW JOSEPH ROGUS JRPrivate First Class · June 30, 1970
From Honolulu
- JAMES GABRIEL JRSpecialist Five · April 8, 1962
- JAMES HIROSHI ISHIHARAChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 10, 1963
- ALAN YUKIO MATSUURAPrivate First Class · April 12, 1964
- JOSEPH N HAOSergeant First Class · November 14, 1964
- ALBERT KALAHANA KUEWAAirman · September 18, 1964
- FLORENDO B PASCUALSergeant First Class · November 3, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY WHITECorporal · December 3, 1965
- ROY SHIGERU KOBAYASHICaptain · January 23, 1966
- SAMUEL POOKEAOKAL GIFFARDStaff Sergeant · January 25, 1966
- GEORGE GRANT KING WEBB JRLance Corporal · February 10, 1966
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.