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EUGENE COSTELLA TIBBS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 3, 1933 – September 11, 1968
Service recordEugene Costella Tibbs, of Sellman, Maryland, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 31
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
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- January 3, 1933
- Home of record
- Sellman, Maryland (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 31
- FRED CONCETTO SPINALance Corporal · September 11, 1968
- THOMAS WILLIAM STEELEPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
- AKOS DEZSO SZEKELYCaptain · September 11, 1968
- JIMMIE WALKER YOUNGSPrivate First Class · September 11, 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.