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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William James Stewart.

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WILLIAM JAMES STEWART

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 1, 1946 – December 5, 1965

Service record

William James Stewart, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 133 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 133

Position of Panel 3E 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
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
May 1, 1946
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1965
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 133

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.