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PATRICK MATTHEW STEELE
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 19, 1949 – May 27, 1968
Service recordPatrick Matthew Steele, of Roseville, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 64W · Line 2
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. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Roseville, Michigan (Macomb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 64W, Line 2
- MELVIN RICHARD SIMPSONCorporal · May 27, 1968
- GEORGE ROBERT SMILEYCorporal · May 27, 1968
- CHARLES JOHN TREWEEKCorporal · May 27, 1968
- THOMAS JERRY WALTERSCorporal · May 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM FRANCIS BRICE JRSergeant · Panel 65W, Line 5
From Roseville
- RANDALL BOYD PRINZSpecialist Four · April 11, 1966
- TRACY LEE JONESCorporal · February 12, 1967
- STEVEN ROSS KINGCorporal · February 14, 1967
- DOUGLAS C STARRYSpecialist Four · September 25, 1967
- DALE MICHAEL LAUSESpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- WALTER LEVON CLARKSergeant · October 29, 1967
- GENE DIRITACorporal · December 10, 1967
- HENRY LOUIS OLSONPrivate First Class · December 17, 1967
- FRED HAROLD SPEARPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- GERALD ALBERT HUCZEKCorporal · February 11, 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.