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STEVEN LAVELLE MCGINNIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 28, 1947 – June 28, 1969
Service recordSteven Lavelle McGinnis, of Sturgis, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 29
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Sturgis, Mississippi (Oktibbeha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 28, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 122 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 29
- HERBERT LOGSDON JRCorporal · June 28, 1969
- KEVIN DOUGLAS LOWSergeant · June 28, 1969
- CHARLES LEE MOSS JRStaff Sergeant · June 28, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES PADDOCKCorporal · June 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM CARL DABBERTPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 28
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.