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DAVID NAYLOR STEGER
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
August 29, 1951 – December 22, 1970
Service recordDavid Naylor Steger, of Hampstead, Maryland, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 22, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 1
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- August 29, 1951
- Home of record
- Hampstead, Maryland (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 22, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 1
- FINLEY AUSTIN RICECorporal · December 22, 1970
- DENNIS NICK VATISTASPrivate First Class · December 22, 1970
- GARY PRESTON BOOTHSpecialist Four · December 23, 1970
- WILLIAM NELSON BULTHUISSergeant · December 23, 1970
From Hampstead
- MURIEL STANLEY GROOMESLance Corporal · November 2, 1968
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.