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RICKEY EUGENE APPLEBY
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 27, 1945 – March 9, 1968
Service recordRickey Eugene Appleby, of Gardena, California, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 9, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 64
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wireman (2511)
- Born
- May 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Gardena, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 64
- JOHN MICHAEL TOMKINSSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
- BEN HAROLD WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- TERRY ALLEN WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- RICHARD THORNTON ARTHURPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
From Gardena
- ERVELL MADRID GUEVARAPrivate · June 22, 1966
- STEPHEN ERNEST DUKEHARTPrivate · December 23, 1966
- JIMMIE CARTER MARTINPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- BERNARDINO GONZALEZ JRPrivate First Class · April 6, 1967
- GEORGE RICHARD LINDERSergeant · May 16, 1967
- MACK EDWARD GREGORYPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- ALFRED FRANKLIN SIMPSONCorporal · August 9, 1967
- JOHN MARTIN KEPPLERPrivate First Class · September 15, 1967
- JAMES ARLIA BLANKENSHIPPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
- KENNETH FRANCIS YBARRAPrivate First Class · November 7, 1968
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.