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DELAND DWIGHT ZUBKE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 28, 1951 – March 1, 1971
Service recordDeland Dwight Zubke, of Grassy Butte, North Dakota, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 1, 1971, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 17
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
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- October 28, 1951
- Home of record
- Grassy Butte, North Dakota (Mckenzie County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 1, 1971
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1971; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4W, Line 17
- KEITH DARRELL HEFFNERPrivate First Class · March 2, 1971
- HERBERT EUGENE MULKEY JRPrivate First Class · March 2, 1971
- RICHARD DAVID SALDANASpecialist Four · March 2, 1971
- RICHARD LEE STOCKETTSergeant · March 2, 1971
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.