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STEVEN ROSS WOLTER
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
June 15, 1944 – March 31, 1968
Service recordSteven Ross Wolter, of Hilo, Hawaii, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 28
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)
- 1 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- June 15, 1944
- Home of record
- Hilo, Hawaii (Hawaii County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 47E, Line 28
- WILLIAM VANCE JRSergeant First Class · March 31, 1968
- SHERMAN THOMAS WASHINGTONPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- JAMES OSCAR WESTPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- JOSEPH KEITH WHEELERPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
From Hilo
- CHARLES MAHELONA IOPACorporal · September 10, 1965
- DELMORE BYRON NERVEZASpecialist Five · December 6, 1965
- KAORU HONDASpecialist Five · September 3, 1967
- FRED KAWAILANI MAS HATADASpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- KENYU SHIMABUKUROGunnery Sergeant · August 22, 1968
- RODNEY TAMOTSU FUKUNAGACorporal · April 9, 1969
- LARRY GENE LEOPOLDINOSpecialist Four · April 25, 1969
- MICHAEL SEIJI NAKASHIMASpecialist Four · May 11, 1969
- ERROL WAYNE PERREIRAPrivate First Class · May 22, 1969
- ALBERTO MILAR JRSergeant · September 7, 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.