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HERBERT CHARLES PHIPPS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 9, 1938 – September 20, 1966
Service recordHerbert Charles Phipps, of Clintwood, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 125
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 9, 1938
- Home of record
- Clintwood, Virginia (Dickenson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 20, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date September 20, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 125
- JOHN PERRY KAMINSKYPrivate First Class · September 20, 1966
- JAMES FRANCIS PANZARELLAFirst Lieutenant · September 20, 1966
- ELIAS RANGEL RODRIGUEZSergeant · September 20, 1966
- MICHAEL DENNIS ROSEMANCorporal · September 20, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES JOSEPH BLANCOSergeant · Panel 10E, Line 123
- ELIAS RANGEL RODRIGUEZSergeant · Panel 10E, Line 125
From Clintwood
- DENNIS RALPH STANLEYSergeant · January 28, 1968
- RICHARD SMITH KENDRICKPrivate First Class · May 7, 1970
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.