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STEVEN HENRY BENNEFELD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 24, 1947 – July 29, 1967
Service recordSteven Henry Bennefeld, of Girard, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 29, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 15
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- G CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Girard, Kansas (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 29, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
184 names on the Wall carry the date July 29, 1967; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “G CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 24E, Line 15
- ROBERT LEWIS BENNETTPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- HENRY WILFRED BERNARD JRLance Corporal · July 29, 1967
- MARK RONALD BISHOPPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- JAMES LAWRENCE BLASKISSeaman · July 29, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD HERMAN JOHNSONLance Corporal · Panel 24E, Line 29
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.