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EUGENE FIPPS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 2, 1935 – August 14, 1967
Service recordEugene Fipps, of Whiteville, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 109
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 2, 1935
- Home of record
- Whiteville, North Carolina (Columbus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 14, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 24E, Line 109
- GARY STILLMAN CURTISSeaman · August 14, 1967
- LEONARD EUGENE EASLEYWarrant Officer 1 · August 14, 1967
- ALEXANDER JACKSONSergeant · August 14, 1967
- ERSKIN DAN LIVINGSTONStaff Sergeant · August 14, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ALEXANDER JACKSONSergeant · Panel 24E, Line 109
From Whiteville
- JACK WALTERS JRLieutenant Commander · May 19, 1967
- EDWARD BARDENCorporal · July 25, 1967
- JOSIAH SMITH JRSpecialist Four · March 5, 1968
- EDDIE LEE LOCKLEARPrivate First Class · June 22, 1969
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.