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STEVEN ALFRED MIDDLETON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 29, 1948 – March 15, 1968
Service recordSteven Alfred Middleton, of St Stephen, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 60
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 29, 1948
- Home of record
- St Stephen, South Carolina (Berkeley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 44E, Line 60
- LEROY W KATTERHENRY JRSergeant · March 15, 1968
- EDWARD ARTHUR LIONETTACorporal · March 15, 1968
- RONALD LEE WRIGHTCorporal · March 15, 1968
- PAUL AARON YOUNGSpecialist Four · March 15, 1968
From St Stephen
- JOE DAVIS MOULTRIEPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- CHARLES SEGAR JRSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
- EDDIE LEE SIMMONSPrivate First Class · October 1, 1968
- ALLISON WAYNE LOCKLAIRSpecialist Four · March 27, 1969
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.