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RICHARD WAYNE HIBBLER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 3, 1948 – January 9, 1970
Service recordRichard Wayne Hibbler, of Rosenberg, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 9, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 18
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Rosenberg, Texas (Fort Bend County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 9, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 9, 1970; six of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 14W, Line 18
- LARRY DONALD GRIFFITHSpecialist Four · January 9, 1970
- ALFRED FLOYD HALLSergeant · January 9, 1970
- GEORGE ALEX HOLTSCHNEIDERSpecialist Four · January 9, 1970
- BOYD LEE WADECorporal · January 9, 1970
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM CHARLES STEFKOFirst Lieutenant · Panel 14W, Line 17
- GERALD ARTHUR JACKSONSecond Lieutenant · Panel 14W, Line 19
- TEDD MCCLUNE LEWISMajor · Panel 14W, Line 19
- JOSE F GUERRERO JRSergeant · Panel 14W, Line 22
From Rosenberg
- GARY LEE COXStaff Sergeant · May 13, 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.