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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stephen Paul Blanchett.

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STEPHEN PAUL BLANCHETT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 20, 1947 – March 7, 1967

Service record

Stephen Paul Blanchett, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 34

Position of Panel 16E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
October 20, 1947
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 7, 1967
Age
19
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1967; nine of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 34

Same unit, same day

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.