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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Scott Meyer Sibson.

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SCOTT MEYER SIBSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 13, 1947 – February 23, 1969

Service record

Scott Meyer Sibson, of Oil City, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 21

Position of Panel 31W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 13, 1947
Home of record
Oil City, Pennsylvania (Venango County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1969
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 119 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Oil City

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.