David Nipper

Vietnam War
Unit3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
RankLance Corporal U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service FromAtlanta Georgia
Date of DeathNovember 21 1964
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Lance Corporal Nipper was a member of Company D, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. On November 21, 1964, he was a passenger in a Sikorsky Seahorse Utility Helicopter (UH-34D) delivering rice to South Vietnamese when his helicopter was shot down off shore. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.