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DUANE WILLARD NYBLOM
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 24, 1945 – May 15, 1969
Service recordDuane Willard Nyblom, of Fridley, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 24, 1945
- Home of record
- Fridley, Minnesota (Anoka County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 19
- FLOYD CHARLES NEVINSSergeant · May 15, 1969
- JOSE LUIS OSUNACorporal · May 15, 1969
- GEORGE PETER PERKINSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1969
- NORRIS ARTHUR PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1969
From Fridley
- JAMES WALTER MILLERPrivate First Class · January 2, 1968
- DONALD LEE PETERSONPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- DUANE CLIFFORD LARSONSpecialist Four · February 4, 1970
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.