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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Donald Steele.

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THOMAS DONALD STEELE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 28, 1945 – April 11, 1966

Service record

Thomas Donald Steele, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 104

Position of Panel 6E 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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 28, 1945
Home of record
Kingston, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 104

Same unit, same day

From Kingston

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.