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WILLIAM HOBSON HUBBARD
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 20, 1931 – March 16, 1966
Service recordWilliam Hobson Hubbard, of Paterson, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Administrative Specialist (71L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 20, 1931
- Home of record
- Paterson, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1966
- Age
- 34
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1966. In March 1966, 564 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.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 6E, Line 13
- PEDRO VAZQUEZ-GONZALEZPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- ROBERT CURTIS WILLIAMSStaff Sergeant · March 15, 1966
- GEORGE WAYNE ABEYPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- CHARLES ARTHUR BELLPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
From Paterson
- JESSE JAMES JRLance Corporal · June 23, 1965
- LLOYD VINCENT GREENESergeant · November 8, 1965
- RAFAEL SANTIAGO-CRUZPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- PETER FRANCIS MEADPetty Officer Third Class · May 21, 1966
- JOHN HENRY LADUKELance Corporal · April 20, 1967
- WLADMIR WILLIAM ZUBARSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- VINCENT JAMES GABRIEL JRPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- DONALD IANDOLISergeant · November 19, 1967
- ARTHUR JORDANPrivate First Class · January 10, 1968
- EDWARD KUBISKYSpecialist Four · January 20, 1968
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.