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LYNN GREGORY HIEBERT
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 7, 1947 – May 24, 1968
Service recordLynn Gregory Hiebert, of Thief River Falls, Minnesota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 68E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 68E · Line 3
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Thief River Falls, Minnesota (Pennington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 68E, Line 3
- JERRY LEE HILBERTPrivate First Class · May 24, 1968
- JERRY JAMES HILLPrivate First Class · May 24, 1968
- DAVID ANDREW JACKSONSpecialist Four · May 24, 1968
- JOSEPH M KAMINSKI JRPrivate First Class · May 24, 1968
From Thief River Falls
- LEROY CLAYTON MARTINSONSergeant First Class · December 8, 1968
- EDDIE LEE EVENSONSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
- MYLES DALEN WESTMANCorporal · May 13, 1969
- NICHOLAS PIERRE LANNOYECorporal · October 10, 1969
- ROBERT JOHN SWEDENBURGSpecialist Four · December 9, 1969
- ROBERT DEAN BESCHSergeant · April 9, 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.