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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 Michael Schlueb.

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STEVEN MICHAEL SCHLUEB

Private · U.S. Army

December 23, 1948 – August 22, 1968

Service record

Steven Michael Schlueb, of Chillicothe, Ohio, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47W · Line 32

Position of Panel 47W 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Wire Systems Installer (36C)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 23, 1948
Home of record
Chillicothe, Ohio (Ross County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 22, 1968
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 47W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From Chillicothe

All 19 names from Chillicothe →

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.