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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glenn Ernest Tubbs.

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GLENN ERNEST TUBBS

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 24, 1940 – January 13, 1970

Service record

Glenn Ernest Tubbs, of Amarillo, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on January 13, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 31

Position of Panel 14W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
January 24, 1940
Home of record
Amarillo, Texas (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of loss
January 13, 1970
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Presumed Dead
Circumstance
Unknown
First reported
Missing
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1970; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 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.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 31

From Amarillo

All 52 names from Amarillo →

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.