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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Arribi.

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DONALD ARRIBI

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

June 11, 1948 – June 7, 1969

Service record

Donald Arribi, of Cliffside Park, New Jersey, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 7, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 95

Position of Panel 23W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
June 11, 1948
Home of record
Cliffside Park, New Jersey (Bergen County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 7, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1969; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 95

From Cliffside Park

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.