
Orie John Jr. Dubbeld from Cocoa Beach, Florida, Brevard county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, March 3, 1971
Death details: On March 3, 1971, two members of Advisory Team 21 were operating alongside the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 22nd Ranger Battalion on a reinforcement mission in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, when their unit came under enemy fire. The two men took cover in a foxhole that then received a direct hit from a mortar round, both men were killed. Surviving members of the unit attempted to recover the remains of those killed in the fighting, but the enemy presence forced them to bury the bodies nearby before withdrawing. Both men remain unaccounted for.
First Lieutenant Orie John Dubbeld Jr., who joined the U.S. Army from Florida, was a member of Advisory Team 21, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. He was one of the two men killed when the mortar shell struck their position, and his remains have not been recovered. Today, First Lieutenant Dubbeld is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency