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EARLIE HENRY HICKS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 5, 1948 – April 18, 1968
Service recordEarlie Henry Hicks JR, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 39
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- April 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 39
- GILBERT EDWARD BUCHANANSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- UDO HANNIGANPrivate · April 18, 1968
- MICHAEL PETER HOUGHPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
- TAYLOR BROOKS HOWARD JRStaff Sergeant · April 18, 1968
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.