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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Wesley Alvin Stiverson.

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WESLEY ALVIN STIVERSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 16, 1950 – March 30, 2005

Service record

Wesley Alvin Stiverson, of Monticello, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 2005, in South Vietnam, at age 54. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 73

Position of Panel 7W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Unit (as recorded)
5TH INF DIV US ARPNC
Born
July 16, 1950
Home of record
Monticello, Illinois (Piatt County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 30, 2005
Age
54
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Gunshot

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date March 30, 2005. In March 2005, 1 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 73

From Monticello

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; panel and line confirmed against the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces because the federal record was incomplete. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.