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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Milo Benett Stibbins.

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MILO BENETT STIBBINS

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

September 3, 1929 – June 11, 1965

Service record

Milo Benett Stibbins, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 8

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
September 3, 1929
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1965
Age
35
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1965. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.