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WILLIAM LUTHER STEVENSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 4, 1946 – July 2, 1967
Service recordWilliam Luther Stevenson, of Leitchfield, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 2, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 115
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- April 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Leitchfield, Kentucky (Grayson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; 93 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 115
- DENTON RAY SLACKPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- MICHAEL DAVID SMITHLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- DAVID GLENN SPEARMANCaptain · July 2, 1967
- MARSHALL GEORGE STEFFANSPrivate · July 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MEDFORD ADARINE CHRYSLERPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 98
- WARREN HARVEY GRANT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 102
- THOMAS W MCMAHON JRLance Corporal · Panel 22E, Line 111
From Leitchfield
- HARVEY ROBERT JA CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- JAMES HOWARD SMITHPrivate First Class · July 14, 1969
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.