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RANDOLPH BOTHWELL SUBER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 22, 1947 – November 13, 1969
Service recordRandolph Bothwell Suber, of Ballwin, Missouri, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on November 13, 1969, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 71
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Ballwin, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- November 13, 1969
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1969. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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.
Read the history
Also on Panel 16W, Line 71
- RONALD EARL RAYStaff Sergeant · November 13, 1969
- STEVEN THOMAS SCHOOLERSpecialist Four · November 13, 1969
- STEVEN G SKELLYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1969
- WILLIE GEORGE TURNERSpecialist Four · November 13, 1969
From Ballwin
- CHARLES MICHAEL SWAIMPrivate First Class · February 10, 1967
- GREGORY BERT JOHNSONSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- THOMAS EUGENE FOSTERSergeant · May 13, 1969
- DANIEL LEE MITCHELLCorporal · August 1, 1970
- THOMAS WELCH SHEAFirst Sergeant · August 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.