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STEVEN WAYNE HERRING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 5, 1948 – June 5, 1969
Service recordSteven Wayne Herring, of Freedom, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 5, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 74
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 116 AVN CO 269 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Freedom, California (Santa Cruz County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 5, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1969; eight of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “116 AVN CO 269 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 74
- KERRY EUGENE HESSFirst Lieutenant · June 5, 1969
- MERLE ROBERT HIGGINSSergeant · June 5, 1969
- RICHARD JEROME HOLMANWarrant Officer 1 · June 5, 1969
- THOMAS GLEN HORALPrivate First Class · June 5, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JIMMY WAYNE CRISPFirst Lieutenant · Panel 23W, Line 71
From Freedom
- BENITO BOBO RODRIGUEZSergeant · April 6, 1968
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.