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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Durward Allan Limbacher.

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DURWARD ALLAN LIMBACHER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 2, 1947 – December 6, 1967

Service record

Durward Allan Limbacher, of Farragut, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1967, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 49

Position of Panel 31E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
July 2, 1947
Home of record
Farragut, Iowa (Fremont County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 6, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Thuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; six of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 49

Same unit, same day

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.