Vietnam War
Unit | 5th Special Forces Group |
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Rank | Staff Sergeant U.S. Army |
Entered Service From | Philadelphia Pennsylvania |
Date of Death | February 7 1968 |
Status | Missing In Action |
Memorialized |
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Honolulu Memorial |
Notes
Staff Sergeant Phillips was a member of Company C, Detachment A-101, 5th Special Forces Group. On February 7, 1968, he was at the Lang Vei Special Forces Camp in the northeast corner of South Vietnam along Route 9, a mile and a half from the Laos border. A combined North Vietnamese Army infantry-tank assault overpowered the camp. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.