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STEVEN HERNANDEZ
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 3, 1945 – February 20, 1968
Service recordSteven Hernandez, of Winnebago, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 40
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Armament Repairman (45J)
- Born
- August 3, 1945
- Home of record
- Winnebago, Minnesota (Faribault County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; eight of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 40
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- STEPHEN MICHAEL HANSENSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- JIMMIE LEE HARVINCorporal · February 20, 1968
- DONALD LEE HERNDONSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
From Winnebago
- JOHN EDGAR SEVERSONSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
- PAUL HARLAN KRUSESpecialist Four · October 2, 1969
- THOMAS EDWARD SOMASpecialist Five · December 30, 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.