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TEDDY WAYNE STEELMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 8, 1945 – February 27, 1967
Service recordTeddy Wayne Steelman, of Roodhouse, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 106
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Roodhouse, Illinois (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 107 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 106
- LITCHFIELD PATTERSON HUIELieutenant · February 27, 1967
- JOHN WILLIAM JACKSONPrivate First Class · February 27, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY OSBORN JONESAirman First Class · February 27, 1967
- EDWARD NORMAN LETCHWORTHLieutenant (junior grade) · February 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT CLYDE ALLENSergeant · Panel 15E, Line 103
- JAMES RAY HUBBARDSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 105
- ARTHUR CLARENCE SISCO JRSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 109
From Roodhouse
- JESSE VIRGINIUS HAWK IIIStaff Sergeant · June 14, 1968
- GEORGE CHARLES PETERSStaff Sergeant · June 23, 1969
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.