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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
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 Leslie Lane.

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STEPHEN LESLIE LANE

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

May 9, 1944 – March 7, 1970

Service record

Stephen Leslie Lane, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 93

Position of Panel 13W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
May 9, 1944
Home of record
Gloucester, Massachusetts (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 7, 1970
Age
25
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 93

Same unit, same day

From Gloucester

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.