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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stuart Murray McLellan.

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STUART MURRAY MCLELLAN

Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy

September 11, 1942 – April 1, 1968

Service record

Stuart Murray McLellan, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 1, 1968, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47E · Line 35

Position of Panel 47E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Url Pilot (1315)
Unit (as recorded)
7 FLT
Born
September 11, 1942
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 1, 1968
Age
25
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1968. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 47E, Line 35

Same unit, same day

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.