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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Steven Mark Connell.

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STEVEN MARK CONNELL

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

April 13, 1947 – May 21, 1967

Service record

Steven Mark Connell, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 21, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 36

Position of Panel 37W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Born
April 13, 1947
Home of record
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 36

From Salt Lake City

All 123 names from Salt Lake City →

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.