Lippman, Gordon Joseph
Army Lieutenant colonel

Gordon Joseph Lippman, age 40, from Perkins County Lemmon, South Dakota .

Parents: Harold G. Lippman
Spouse: Married

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Saturday, December 11, 1965
Death details: Gordon often wrote his family from Vietnam but late in 1965 said he wouldn’t be able to write for about a week. He was going out with his men to fight the Viet Cong. The next word received was a notice he was killed in action December 11. The family at first struggled with where to bury his remains, as they wanted him close to home but he was a soldier entitled to the highest honors. The answer was found in the pocket of an extra dress uniform left at home. The note said Arlington National.
Cemetery: Arlington National

Source: National Archives, Rapid City Journal (1965)