The Wall › Panel 28W › California › Lea Everett Nibbelink
LEA EVERETT NIBBELINK
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 1, 1948 – March 29, 1969
Service recordLea Everett Nibbelink, of Los Alamitos, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 29, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 84
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Los Alamitos, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 84
- JULIO MALABELance Corporal · March 29, 1969
- ROBERT ALTON MULHOLLANDPrivate First Class · March 29, 1969
- JOHN LEROY PARTEESergeant First Class · March 29, 1969
- DANNY FRANKLIN PERKINSPrivate First Class · March 29, 1969
From Los Alamitos
- JESSE JUNIOR TAYLORCommander · November 17, 1965
- DONALD MICHEAL GRALLAPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- BARRY WILLIAM VANHORNPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- DAVID EUGENE WATKINSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- JAMES RAY FRY JRPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
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.