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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 Stewart Charles Emerson.

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STEWART CHARLES EMERSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 29, 1945 – October 12, 1968

Service record

Stewart Charles Emerson, of Sunderland, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 12, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41W · Line 52

Position of Panel 41W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
January 29, 1945
Home of record
Sunderland, Maryland (Calvert County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 12, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date October 12, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 41W, Line 52

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.