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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allen Issac Limbrick.

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ALLEN ISSAC LIMBRICK

Specialist Six · U.S. Army

October 17, 1930 – December 22, 1968

Service record

Allen Issac Limbrick, of Galveston, Texas, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on December 22, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 64

Position of Panel 36W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Six (SP6)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mason (51D)
Born
October 17, 1930
Home of record
Galveston, Texas (Galveston County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 22, 1968
Age
38
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 64

From Galveston

All 32 names from Galveston →

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.