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STEVE KLARIK
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 19, 1934 – April 10, 1968
Service recordSteve Klarik, of East Chicago, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 16
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- March 19, 1934
- Home of record
- East Chicago, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1968; 12 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 unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 16
- YLDEFONSO SOLA-MALDONADOLance Corporal · April 10, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH SOWINSKICorporal · April 10, 1968
- HAROLD TOMPKINSPetty Officer First Class · April 10, 1968
- MICHAEL PETER UMELPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY DAN LOKKENCaptain · Panel 49E, Line 12
From East Chicago
- JAMES EDWARD WENZELCaptain · August 30, 1963
- LOUIS GEORGE ONOHANAirman Second Class · April 24, 1964
- WILLIAM ARTHUR HOOS JRCaptain · February 14, 1966
- PATRICK CHRISTOPHER NEVINSergeant · February 23, 1966
- EDWARD FRANK HAPFirst Lieutenant · July 20, 1966
- DAVID WILLIAM POLICHPrivate First Class · September 25, 1966
- CORNELIUS GILPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- HAROLD GOMEZCorporal · February 21, 1967
- ANTHONY RAYMOND PRIETOPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- EDWARD CHARLES JONESSergeant · September 20, 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.