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STEVEN DAVID FRANCIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 22, 1946 – January 21, 1967
Service recordSteven David Francis, of Burbank, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 21, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Burbank, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1967; eight of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 62
- STEPHEN MICHAEL DYDYNSKIPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
- HERBERT ERNEST FRENZELLPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
- LARRY WAYNE GARDNERSergeant · January 21, 1967
- EUGENE THOMAS GLOWACKIPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FUIFUITAUA AMISONEStaff Sergeant · Panel 14E, Line 7
- JIMMY DALE HESSONSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 63
- WILLIAM ARCHIE JONES JRPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 63
- MANUEL VAILLIDO TREVINOCorporal · Panel 14E, Line 65
- JOHN LESTER WILHELMSpecialist Five · Panel 14E, Line 65
- CHARLES MICHAEL YATESPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 65
From Burbank
- DONALD EDWARD CLOSECaptain · May 15, 1965
- JAMES ALVIN BEENELieutenant Commander · October 5, 1966
- STEPHEN DONALD PLEASANTPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- JAMES HERBERT FLICKINGERSpecialist Four · May 3, 1967
- STEPHEN PAUL HANSONMajor · June 3, 1967
- WAYNE EDWIN HALSTEADLance Corporal · June 20, 1967
- RONALD REED KINGCorporal · September 21, 1967
- TERRY MICHAEL ENRIQUEZPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- DOUGLAS RAY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- JACK PYEATT WILSON JRSpecialist Four · February 2, 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.