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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Fred Martin Steuer.

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FRED MARTIN STEUER

Specialist Six · U.S. Army

June 20, 1929 – January 13, 1962

Service record

Fred Martin Steuer, of Milan, Indiana, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on January 13, 1962, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 5

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Six (SP6)
Service
Regular
Born
June 20, 1929
Home of record
Milan, Indiana (Ripley County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 13, 1962
Age
32
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1962. In January 1962, 3 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 5

From Milan

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.