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WILLIAM WENTWORTH STUBBS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 6, 1949 – October 20, 1969
Service recordWilliam Wentworth Stubbs, of Newport, Washington, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on October 20, 1969, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 99
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Newport, Washington (Pend Oreille County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 20, 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
32 names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1969. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 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 17W, Line 99
- ALEXANDER VIGILSpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
- JOE NATHANIEL WATSONLance Corporal · October 20, 1969
- MICKEY ROY ALEXANDERCorporal · October 21, 1969
- DANNY ELBERT APPLETONSpecialist Four · October 21, 1969
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.