Philippe Bruce Stephen
Lance Corporal
F CO, 2ND BN, 7TH MARINES, 1ST MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 25, 1946 to March 05, 1967
PHILIPPE B STEPHEN is on the Wall at Panel 16E, Line 24

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3 Oct 2002

The photo and following article is taken from The Philadelphia Daily News, special supplement entitled 'SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY,' October 26, 1987.

Stephen attended Overbrook High School and Temple University before entering the Marine Corps in March 1966. The lance corporal was a rifleman with Company F of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Stephen died in Quang Ngai Province, Viet Nam, on March 5, 1967, during Operation DeSoto. He was 20. Survivors included his mother and two sisters.

SEMPER FIDELIS, MARINE!

From a native Philadelphian and Marine,
Jim McIlhenney
christianamacks@comcast.net


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