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EDWARD LEROY NIEBUR
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
June 29, 1943 – February 27, 1968
Service recordEdward Leroy Niebur, of Bellevue, Nebraska, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 27, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 52
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- June 29, 1943
- Home of record
- Bellevue, Nebraska (Sarpy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 52
- RICHARD EUGENE GRIERPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- LOUIS HENRY MCFARLANDFirst Lieutenant · February 27, 1968
- ROBERT E MINOPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- FREDERICK J OCONNOR JRPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
From Bellevue
- WILLIAM MARSHALL ROARKLieutenant · April 7, 1965
- GORDON KAYE GATHMANPrivate First Class · September 20, 1970
- JOHN PAUL JOHNSONSergeant · September 20, 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.