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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Steven Jerome Roum.

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STEVEN JEROME ROUM

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 11, 1948 – January 27, 1969

Service record

Steven Jerome Roum, of Cambridge, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 27, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33W · Line 4

Position of Panel 33W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 11, 1948
Home of record
Cambridge, Wisconsin (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 27, 1969
Age
20
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1969; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33W, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Cambridge

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.