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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Steven Michael Bezenski.

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STEVEN MICHAEL BEZENSKI

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

October 25, 1945 – March 26, 1968

Service record

Steven Michael Bezenski, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46E · Line 29

Position of Panel 46E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Clerk-Typist (71B)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 55 MED GRP 44 MED BDE
Born
October 25, 1945
Home of record
Levittown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 26, 1968
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 46E, Line 29

From Levittown

All 19 names from Levittown →

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.