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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth R Stubblefield.

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KENNETH R STUBBLEFIELD

Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 20, 1936 – December 13, 1967

Service record

Kenneth R Stubblefield, of Clinton, Iowa, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 89

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 20, 1936
Home of record
Clinton, Iowa (Clinton County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 13, 1967
Age
31
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1967; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 89

Same unit, same day

From Clinton

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.