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CECIL BERNARD NICKENS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 19, 1947 – August 9, 1967
Service recordCecil Bernard Nickens, of Lakewood, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 9, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 96
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Born
- September 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Lakewood, New Jersey (Ocean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 9, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date August 9, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 96
- PRENTICE DALE LECLAIRSpecialist Four · August 9, 1967
- ROBERT JAMES MAXWELLSergeant · August 9, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MCRAEPrivate · August 9, 1967
- RAY EDWARD MORAN JRSpecialist Four · August 9, 1967
From Lakewood
- AADO KOMMENDANTMajor · August 8, 1966
- KEVIN LESLIE GREENESergeant · September 27, 1968
- WILLIAM PAUL BENNPrivate First Class · June 6, 1969
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.