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WILLIAM DAVIS STEELE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 6, 1940 – July 19, 1969
Service recordWilliam Davis Steele, of Belmont, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 23
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 6, 1940
- Home of record
- Belmont, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 19, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 20W, Line 23
- ROBERT LEE ROY SEEKAMPPrivate First Class · July 19, 1969
- ROY DEAN SIKKINKLieutenant (junior grade) · July 19, 1969
- WAYLAND DAN STEMBRIDGESergeant · July 19, 1969
- WALLATE FRED THIBODEAUStaff Sergeant · July 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CARROL FAYNE MEADOWSSergeant First Class · Panel 20W, Line 21
From Belmont
- RICHARD EDWARD WINGATEPrivate First Class · September 21, 1965
- DANNY LEDFORDPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- CURTIS LEE BATTONLance Corporal · September 25, 1968
- STEPHEN JOSEPH PASTULASpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
- ADREN ANDREW LEEPrivate First Class · August 22, 1969
- BUNYAN DURANT PRICE JRStaff Sergeant · May 2, 1970
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.