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GENE PAUL STUIFBERGEN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
June 29, 1934 – November 27, 1968
Service recordGene Paul Stuifbergen, of Augusta, Michigan, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 27, 1968, in Cambodia, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 79
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 20 SOS
- Born
- June 29, 1934
- Home of record
- Augusta, Michigan (Kalamazoo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1968. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
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
Also on Panel 38W, Line 79
- SALVATORE JOHN PISCITELLOSergeant · November 27, 1968
- DAVID WESLEY SMITHFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1968
- THEODORE ALFRED SWEATTSpecialist Four · November 27, 1968
- DANIEL CLINE TEDROWCorporal · November 27, 1968
From Augusta
- FRANCIS EUGENE SANDERSPrivate First Class · December 25, 1967
- CURTIS KEITH COOK JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 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.