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VERNON ROBERT STEAD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 18, 1949 – March 13, 1968
Service recordVernon Robert Stead, of Southgate, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 41
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- November 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Southgate, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 41
- LARRY DEE SHERMANSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- TODD EARLE SWANSONPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- RUBEN NOAH TACKETTSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- J ATHAN THEODORESergeant · March 13, 1968
From Southgate
- MICHAEL SOROVETZCorporal · May 28, 1967
- DONALD RICHARD NORTH JRCorporal · June 1, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD SPENS IIIPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
- DENNIS WILLIAM KOSEBASpecialist Five · September 23, 1968
- BRIAN RICHARD MCNEWSpecialist Four · May 18, 1969
- PATRICK EDWARD MCGOVERNCorporal · July 5, 1969
- JOHN KEITH ANDERSONSpecialist Five · August 10, 1969
- HERMAN JAMES OBYRNSpecialist Four · October 11, 1969
- PHILIP JOHN SCHROCKFirst Lieutenant · December 6, 1969
- WILLIAM JOHNSON FRANKLINLance Corporal · September 16, 1970
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.