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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 Clifton Cubbage.

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CLIFTON CUBBAGE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 25, 1947 – May 16, 1968

Service record

Clifton Cubbage, of Bowers Beach, Delaware, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 16, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 61E · Line 8

Position of Panel 61E 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)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 25, 1947
Home of record
Bowers Beach, Delaware (Kent County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 16, 1968
Age
20
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

80 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1968; nine of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 61E, Line 8

Same unit, same day

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.