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STEVEN SOLARI
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 13, 1948 – January 18, 1968
Service recordSteven Solari, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 18, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 70
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Communications Electronics Equipment Mechanic (31B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 70
- MICHAEL KANEPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- JAMES ALBERT MORRISONPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- WILLIAM DWIGHT ORDWAYSecond Lieutenant · January 18, 1968
- RONALD L ROEHRICHLieutenant (junior grade) · January 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KERRY RICHARD FOST GEDDESCorporal · Panel 34E, Line 68
- THEODORE FRED JOHNSONCorporal · Panel 34E, Line 69
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
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.