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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Steven Paul Rance.

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STEVEN PAUL RANCE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 10, 1949 – September 26, 1968

Service record

Steven Paul Rance, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 26, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 42W · Line 21

Position of Panel 42W 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
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
October 10, 1949
Home of record
Green Bay, Wisconsin (Brown County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 26, 1968
Age
18
Province
Kien Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

55 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1968; eight of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 42W, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Green Bay

All 33 names from Green Bay →

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.