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VICTOR MICHAEL STRIBLING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 18, 1947 – February 12, 1968
Service recordVictor Michael Stribling, of Starkville, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 12, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Starkville, Mississippi (Oktibbeha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 140 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 13
- KALEY ALFRED SONNERSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- LARRY KIETH SPANGLERCorporal · February 12, 1968
- ULYSSES STEWARTSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- BOBBY COLLINS SUTHERLANDSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK GEORGE LOPEZSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 8
From Starkville
- GEORGE EDWARD COLLIERSergeant · May 28, 1962
- ROBERT MORRIS HILLSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- GEORGE HOWARD WARDPrivate First Class · April 11, 1966
- CLIFTON FLOYD VAUGHNPrivate First Class · August 26, 1966
- JACK ROWLEY LICHTE JRFirst Lieutenant · March 20, 1967
- THOMAS LESLIE WARDPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- WILLIAM NEWTON JOHNSONSecond Lieutenant · January 27, 1968
- CHARLES LOUIS HUNTERSpecialist Four · June 18, 1969
- ROBERT HORACE BENNETTCaptain · November 4, 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.