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NED TURNER DYBVIG
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 14, 1944 – June 16, 1968
Service recordNed Turner Dybvig, of Akron, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 16, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 2
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 14, 1944
- Home of record
- Akron, Ohio (Summit County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 2
- EDWARD CRUZ CRUZPetty Officer Second Class · June 16, 1968
- ALAN RAY DUKECorporal · June 16, 1968
- WAYNE ARDELL FERGUSONMajor · June 16, 1968
- MANUEL ANTONIO GALINDEZLance Corporal · June 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEEVERNE RICHARD ACHOEPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 34
- JESSE STEPHEN AYRESPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 34
- THOMAS D BERNARDPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 34
- ALAN RAY DUKECorporal · Panel 56W, Line 2
- CARL WAYNE HOLLERCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 4
- PAUL LOUIS JOYNERCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 4
- FREDDIE LEE MCNEILCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 6
- MICHIEL DAVID MURRAYCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 6
- STEPHEN BOYD OWENCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 7
- CHARLES V VASQUEZ JRCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 10
From Akron
- PAUL R HELTSLEY IIIPrivate First Class · July 17, 1964
- ANDREW MILLARD KEACaptain · May 16, 1965
- GEORGE HOWARD FRAZEE JRSergeant · May 28, 1965
- FRANK WILLARD WILSONCorporal · June 6, 1965
- ROBERT DUANE STEPANOVSpecialist Four · July 5, 1965
- RICHARD WEBSTERSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- WAYNE HULEN ROWLANDPrivate First Class · April 17, 1966
- RICHARD DOUGLAS HOGARTHFirst Lieutenant · May 6, 1966
- JOSEPH STANLEY VESELY JRSpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- JAMES QUINEL AYDLETTFirst Lieutenant · July 11, 1966
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.