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ALLAN FRED KOEBERNICK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 4, 1941 – September 23, 1968
Service recordAllan Fred Koebernick, of Blackduck, Minnesota, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 23, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 69
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 4, 1941
- Home of record
- Blackduck, Minnesota (Beltrami County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 23, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1968; three of them were lost in Long An Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 69
- ROBERT WILLIAM HARRISLieutenant · September 23, 1968
- DENNIS WILLIAM KOSEBASpecialist Five · September 23, 1968
- RICHARD GREENE MADDOXCaptain · September 23, 1968
- JOSEPH ANTHONY MAISANOPrivate First Class · September 23, 1968
From Blackduck
- CLARENCE ERNEST LOSSINGSpecialist Four · July 11, 1967
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.