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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 Paul Morse.

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STEVEN PAUL MORSE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 12, 1947 – November 22, 1967

Service record

Steven Paul Morse, of Bridgeton, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 22, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 64

Position of Panel 30E 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 First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Born
October 12, 1947
Home of record
Bridgeton, Missouri (St Louis County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 22, 1967
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1967; six of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 64

From Bridgeton

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.