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LLOYD EUGENE TRIBBETT
Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 18, 1936 – May 8, 1968
Service recordLloyd Eugene Tribbett, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 11
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
- Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 18, 1936
- Home of record
- Crawfordsville, Indiana (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; nine of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 11
- DONALD WALTER SPERLCorporal · May 8, 1968
- WILLIAM DERRILL TRENTLance Corporal · May 8, 1968
- ROBERT ERVIN TUTTLESecond Lieutenant · May 8, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM VIKTORYN JRPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN WILLIAM BEZECNYSergeant · Panel 56E, Line 35
- MICHAEL DENNIS CONNOLLYSergeant · Panel 56E, Line 37
- DEN JUNIOR HAWKINSPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 4
- DAVID B RODMANCaptain · Panel 57E, Line 9
From Crawfordsville
- RICHARD E LYNCHPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- DELBERT WAYNE HAASELance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- LEONARD ALLEN STALNAKERSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- JOHN JAMES CORWIN IICorporal · April 17, 1969
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.