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STEPHEN SCOTT NIEDERHAUSE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 4, 1944 – February 26, 1969
Service recordStephen Scott Niederhause, of Reseda, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Oh-13/Oh-23 Helicopter Repairman (67M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 4, 1944
- Home of record
- Reseda, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 26, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 63
- MICHAEL LEE ZAPPIAPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- GERALD DAVID ZAWADZKICorporal · February 25, 1969
- VINCENT NORVELL BANKSPrivate First Class · February 26, 1969
- IRIA DANIEL BARNETTSpecialist Four · February 26, 1969
From Reseda
- ARTHUR LOREN HAWKINS JRCorporal · November 10, 1967
- PATRICK LOUIS BRUCKNERLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- WILLIAM PAUL TOWNSEND JRPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GEROMESergeant · May 7, 1968
- DAVID RICHARD BINNSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- JOE RAY COURTNEY JRCorporal · May 22, 1968
- DAVID COURTNEY DAHLINSergeant · September 12, 1968
- THOMAS LEE CARTERCaptain · November 10, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD HARRISONCorporal · March 9, 1969
- JOHN ANDREW LESTELLE IIPrivate First Class · March 17, 1969
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.