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WENDELL WARREN STEWART
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
March 4, 1945 – August 3, 1967
Service recordWendell Warren Stewart, of Wagner, South Dakota, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 3, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 74
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Machinist's Mate (AD)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- March 4, 1945
- Home of record
- Wagner, South Dakota (Charles Mix County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 3, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date August 3, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 74
- WILLIAM GRIGABY PHILLIPSSergeant · August 3, 1967
- TROY MURL PUCKETTSpecialist Four · August 3, 1967
- HOWARD JON SCHNABOLKFirst Lieutenant · August 3, 1967
- JOHN NORMAN WICKLIFFESergeant First Class · August 3, 1967
From Wagner
- GARETH JOHN DEALSpecialist Five · October 17, 1966
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.