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STEPHEN WAYNE HADLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 14, 1948 – June 20, 1968
Service recordStephen Wayne Hadley, of Princeton, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 4
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Born
- September 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Princeton, Indiana (Gibson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 4
- ROBERT GEORGE ZINKPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- ROSS OWEN BARLOWChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 20, 1968
- TOMMY JOE BREHMSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
- THOMAS RAY EDWARDSSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
From Princeton
- HOLLIE BOYD RUSSELLPetty Officer Third Class · November 26, 1966
- RICHARD EDWARD WOLFEPrivate First Class · January 6, 1968
- ROBERT LEE STALEY JRLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS LYNNPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- THOMAS EARL LITTLEPAGEPrivate First Class · January 24, 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.