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RICHARD NELSON KIMBALL JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 12, 1943 – November 23, 1967
Service recordRichard Nelson Kimball JR, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 70
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 23, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1967; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 30E, Line 70
- LE ROY EDWARD FLADRYSergeant · November 23, 1967
- ROBERT LOUIS GUNTHERSergeant · November 23, 1967
- ALAN JOHN IMPELITHEREPrivate First Class · November 23, 1967
- RONNY DEAN ROBERTSLance Corporal · November 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM LLOYD CATESMaster Sergeant · Panel 30E, Line 69
- LE ROY EDWARD FLADRYSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 70
- ALAN JOHN IMPELITHEREPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 70
- PETER J LANTZFirst Lieutenant · Panel 30E, Line 71
- RICHARD FLOYD MASONPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 72
- GARY DOYLE ROERINKPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 73
- JAMES R WORRELL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 75
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- RALPH ROGER JUSTICEStaff Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 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.