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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Cabbagestalk.

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EUGENE CABBAGESTALK

Private · U.S. Army

September 30, 1946 – January 11, 1967

Service record

Eugene Cabbagestalk, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on January 11, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 9

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
September 30, 1946
Home of record
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 11, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 9

From Pittsburgh

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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.