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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 Warren Boegli.

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STEVEN WARREN BOEGLI

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

October 19, 1948 – May 11, 1970

Service record

Steven Warren Boegli, of Dallas, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 11, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 17

Position of Panel 10W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Motor Vehicle Operator (3531)
Born
October 19, 1948
Home of record
Dallas, Texas (Dallas County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 11, 1970
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1970; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 17

From Dallas

All 261 names from Dallas →

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.