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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 Lee Beck.

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STEVEN LEE BECK

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

August 27, 1944 – September 13, 1968

Service record

Steven Lee Beck, of Atherton, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44W · Line 45

Position of Panel 44W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Aide-De-Camp (2030)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 27, 1944
Home of record
Atherton, California (San Mateo County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 13, 1968
Age
24
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 44W, Line 45

Same unit, same day

From Atherton

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.