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STEVAN ROY SARGENT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 19, 1947 – February 15, 1968
Service recordStevan Roy Sargent, of Kalama, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 15, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Kalama, Washington (Cowlitz County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 164 of its members that month.
He died in Long An Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 53
- RAMON SAUL RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- MELVIN HILTON SANDERSPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- JIMMY LOUIS SILERPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- EURAL STANLEY JRPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LUNAS JONAS DANIELSSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 44
- BENJAMIN S UNDERHILLSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 55
From Kalama
- RICHARD WILBUR ANDERSONSpecialist Four · March 22, 1969
- KURTIS LANE GAYNORPrivate First Class · June 15, 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.