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GORDON EDMUND TIBBETTS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 13, 1949 – March 26, 1971
Service recordGordon Edmund Tibbetts, of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1971, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 81
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Watercraft Engineer (61C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- October 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Boothbay Harbor, Maine (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1971; four of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 81
- DAVID RAMIREZ MENDOZASpecialist Four · March 26, 1971
- LAWRENCE PHILLIPSStaff Sergeant · March 26, 1971
- JAMES MICHAEL RISCHPrivate · March 26, 1971
- GARY A SCHULTZSergeant · March 26, 1971
Same unit, same day
- JACOB BENEDICT BABIN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 79
- ROBERT DANIEL COFFEYPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 79
- WILLIAM ARTHUR KINDERSpecialist Five · Panel 4W, Line 80
- LAWRENCE PHILLIPSStaff Sergeant · Panel 4W, Line 81
From Boothbay Harbor
- JONATHAN ANSEL SAWYERHospitalman · July 2, 1967
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.