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WILLIAM STEVE SHADE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 26, 1949 – October 13, 1969
Service recordWilliam Steve Shade, of Penrose, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 13, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 75
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
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- July 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Penrose, Colorado (Fremont County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 13, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 75
- JOHN PRICE PICKETTSecond Lieutenant · October 13, 1969
- RONALD CLEMENCE RUDOLPHChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 13, 1969
- JOHN MELVIN WHEELERCaptain · October 13, 1969
- ERNEST BERTIE WHITESpecialist Five · October 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST BERTIE WHITESpecialist Five · Panel 17W, Line 75
From Penrose
- CHARLEY CHESTER KIBELPrivate First Class · April 4, 1967
- CLAUD WILLIAM CAPRAROCorporal · December 3, 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.