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WILLIAM STEVEN STEWART
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
September 4, 1947 – December 15, 1970
Service recordWilliam Steven Stewart, of Topeka, Kansas, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 15, 1970, in North Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 123
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 Fire Control Technician (AQ)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- September 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Topeka, Kansas (Shawnee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 15, 1970
- Age
- 23
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1970. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 6W, Line 123
- HERMAN FRED IVEYCorporal · December 15, 1970
- MERIL OLEN MCCOY JRLieutenant · December 15, 1970
- CLYDE CHILTON OWENPetty Officer Third Class · December 15, 1970
- ANTHONY J PIERSANTI JRLieutenant (junior grade) · December 15, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JOHN FRANK SZLAPA IIIPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 6W, Line 124
From Topeka
- RALPH GEORGE REDMONDFirst Lieutenant · June 4, 1964
- ALLEN LEE HOLTChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 5, 1965
- DALE K SHAMBAUGHSecond Lieutenant · August 18, 1965
- EUGENE MILLARD JEWELLCaptain · September 4, 1965
- RICHARD NORMAN PAYNELance Corporal · July 24, 1966
- GARY REED PARSONSPrivate First Class · September 26, 1966
- WILLIAM HARLEY MEANS JRColonel · July 20, 1966
- RICHARD JOHN SASEKCaptain · July 6, 1967
- JEROME GEORGE MCGOVERNSergeant · July 12, 1967
- ROBERT GENE KIMMELLieutenant Colonel · November 14, 1967
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.