Johnson Augustus SteidlerPrivate First ClassA CO, 2ND BN, 503RD INF RGT, 173 ABN BDE Army of the United States 21 October 1947 - 22 June 1967 Gibbstown, New Jersey Panel 22E Line 050 |
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The database page for Johnson Augustus Steidler
"So much the better,
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We were once 19, Johnson Steidler will always be 19.
"Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori"
From his brother Ron's friend and fellow soldier, |
A Note from The Virtual WallOn 22/23 June 1967, three platoons of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, were effectively wiped out in a meeting engagement with a battalion of North Vietnamese Army regulars. Seventy-four men from A Company died, 43 of them previously wounded men who were executed by close-range gunshots to the head during the night of 22/23 June. PFC Johnson Steidler was one of the men who died in the fighting which became known as |
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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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