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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Steven Thurlow Jewell.

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STEVEN THURLOW JEWELL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 30, 1947 – January 26, 1966

Service record

Steven Thurlow Jewell, of Coon Rapids, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 26, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 97

Position of Panel 4E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 168 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP
Born
January 30, 1947
Home of record
Coon Rapids, Iowa (Carroll County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 26, 1966
Age
18
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “A CO 168 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 97

Same unit, same day

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.