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STEVEN JOHN STROUB
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 29, 1947 – February 5, 1968
Service recordSteven John Stroub, of Austin, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 5, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 45
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Broadcast Journalist (71R)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Austin, Minnesota (Mower County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date February 5, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. 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 37E, Line 45
- ANTHONY JOHN SCHNELLER JRPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- LOUIS FRANKLIN STAPLESLance Corporal · February 5, 1968
- CHARLES ROBERT STEVENSONPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- ERNEST VERNON TAYLORPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY J BLANKENSHIPCorporal · Panel 37E, Line 31
- RAUL CANDELARIAPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 33
- JOSEPH EDWARD HEIMANSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 36
- LEE RAY KINGSpecialist Five · Panel 37E, Line 37
- MICHAEL S LANEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 37E, Line 38
- JEFFREY PAUL MORLEYWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 37E, Line 40
From Austin
- JERRY IRVEN HELLANDPrivate First Class · February 5, 1966
- TRACY STEPHEN TENHOFFLance Corporal · November 13, 1966
- THEODORE RUSSELL NELSONPetty Officer Third Class · May 18, 1967
- NORMAN LEE HINKLESpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- DENNIS CLARENCE JERDETPrivate First Class · October 11, 1968
- ELMER EUGENE FREESECorporal · November 23, 1968
- JAN PAUL CHRISTENSENFirst Lieutenant · January 15, 1969
- STEPHEN DUANE JOHNSONSergeant · June 3, 1969
- JEAN ARTHUR KEARBYLieutenant Colonel · June 23, 1969
- PHILIP OWEN RICHARDSONSergeant · August 12, 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.