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STEVEN DWIGHT SEARS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
February 24, 1947 – November 1, 1967
Service recordSteven Dwight Sears, of Highview, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 1, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 6
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- February 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Highview, Iowa (Hamilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 1, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 6
- FRANK RAY NOESergeant First Class · November 1, 1967
- LEO RICHARD SCHOFFSecond Lieutenant · November 1, 1967
- RONALD DAVID SHEFFEYLance Corporal · November 1, 1967
- KENNETH EUGENE SLATERPrivate First Class · November 1, 1967
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.