STEVEN JAMES HUBERT

Company D 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 04/05/1969

 

 

Age: 21
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth May 15, 1947
From: LAMBERTON, MN
Religion: METHODIST
Marital Status: Single

SGT - E5 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B40: Infantryman
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Oct 7, 1968
Casualty was on Apr 5, 1969
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Body was recovered

Panel 27W - Line 18

 

Steven Hubert was killed in action while on Operation Wayne Grey, during an assault on NVA positions
near LZ Cider in the Plei Trap Valley, at grid reference YA811797, approximately 27 kilometers north of
Plei Djereng airfield.

 

 

SGT Steven J. Hubert's decorations

 

 

The citation for the award of the Bronze Star Medal to SGT Steven Hubert

 

 

 

SGT Steven Hubert wearing his Sergeant stripes, awarded after graduating from NCO Academy,
photo taken at the family farm in Lamberton, MN, the day he left for Vietnam

Photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

 

SGT Steven Hubert in Vietnam

Photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

 

SGT Steven Hubert in Vietnam

Photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

 

SGT Steven Hubert in Vietnam

Photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

SGT Steven Hubert in Vietnam

Photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

 

Steve Hubert in Vietnam

 

Photo from the Together We Served website

 

 

 

 

 


 

Obituary courtesy of Scott Jones, Sturm Funeral Home

 

 

Certificate of Honorable Service issued for SGT Steven James Hubert

Photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

 

 

     

The original medal display for SGT Steve Hubert

Note the Vietnamese manufactured
Gallantry Cross and Military Merit Medals,
presented to Steve's family by the South Vietnamese Government.

Photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

 

 

 


Newspaper article containing the poem written by Steve's friend,
Steve Michalski, who was also Killed In Action on April 5, 1969.

Courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

Steve Michalski, who wrote the above poem, was also killed
in the engagement in which Steve Hubert lost his life.

Photo from the 1969 1st Battalion yearbook

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grave marker for Steven James Hubert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top photo courtesy of Steve's brother Bob Hubert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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