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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 Roger Allen Steele.

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ROGER ALLEN STEELE

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

April 22, 1949 – November 11, 1969

Service record

Roger Allen Steele, of Mason, Nevada, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 11, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 16W · Line 60

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
April 22, 1949
Home of record
Mason, Nevada (Lyon County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 11, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

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29 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Mason

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.