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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Steven Louis Dobry.

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STEVEN LOUIS DOBRY

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

October 27, 1949 – June 9, 1970

Service record

Steven Louis Dobry, of Cement, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9W · Line 32

Position of Panel 9W 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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Observation/Scout Helicopter Repairer (67V)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 27, 1949
Home of record
Cement, Oklahoma (Caddo County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 9, 1970
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1970; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

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.