Name:
Jerome Stewart
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
Unit:
Date of Death:
1980-03-14
State:
Virginia
Cemetery:
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
Plot:
Section 70
Row:
Grave:
Site 1008
Decoration:
Comments:
Jerome Stewart, of Norfolk, VA, was born on July 4, 1957. He was serving in the US Navy as a Seaman and a Bantamweight boxer. He was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team that was killed in a plane crash near Warsaw, Poland, on March 14, 1980. That day, the team was traveling from New York to Warsaw to compete in two dual events in Cracow and Katowice when the Polish IL-62 jetliner went down just half a mile from Warsaw's Okecie Airport. Eighty-seven people, all passengers and crew, including 22 members (14 boxers and 8 staff members) of the US boxing team, died.