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STEVE ALDMAN HARDING
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 8, 1941 – April 26, 1968
Service recordSteve Aldman Harding, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 18
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 8, 1941
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 18
- BILLY REX FOSTERSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- JOHN ALVIN FRANKLINSergeant · April 26, 1968
- RUSSELL RICKLAND FYANTechnical Sergeant · April 26, 1968
- DAVID LEWIS HARTYLance Corporal · April 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD KIETH DUDLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 17
- BILLY REX FOSTERSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 18
- ROBERT EDWARD LEASpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 21
- EARL PHILLIP SUMMERSILLPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 24
- JAMES WILLIE TERRYPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 25
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 1967
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.