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STEVEN LEON RANEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 5, 1946 – February 2, 1968
Service recordSteven Leon Raney, of Swan, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 83
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Fixed Plant Carrier Repairman (32E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- August 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Swan, Iowa (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36E, Line 83
- VINCENT P LANDONCorporal · February 2, 1968
- JOSEPH DAVID PUGGISergeant First Class · February 2, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- DELBERT LEON REESESpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RODNEY ARTHUR ALFANOFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 64
- ALBERT LEON BETTSSpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 65
- LEANDRO GARCIAPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 71
- RICHARD EDWARD GIDEONSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 72
- LEON FAIRDEN HUBERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 74
- JOSEPH MICHAEL RODRIGUESSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 84
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.