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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 Konstantins Adolfs Lubavs.

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KONSTANTINS ADOLFS LUBAVS

Captain · U.S. Army

June 13, 1939 – February 7, 1966

Service record

Konstantins Adolfs Lubavs, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 12

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
June 13, 1939
Home of record
Kalamazoo, Michigan (Kalamazoo County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 7, 1966
Age
26
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 12

From Kalamazoo

All 39 names from Kalamazoo →

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.