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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Anthony Michael Steen.

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ANTHONY MICHAEL STEEN

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

August 10, 1949 – September 13, 1969

Service record

Anthony Michael Steen, of Troy, New York, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 13, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 80

Position of Panel 18W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
August 10, 1949
Home of record
Troy, New York (Rensselaer County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 13, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 80

From Troy

All 22 names from Troy →

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.