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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 Parker Brodrick.

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STEVEN PARKER BRODRICK

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 21, 1943 – December 11, 1968

Service record

Steven Parker Brodrick, of Selma, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 84

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
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
March 21, 1943
Home of record
Selma, California (Fresno County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 11, 1968
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 84

From Selma

All 12 names from Selma →

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.