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EDWARD LEWIS NIX
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 12, 1946 – May 16, 1968
Service recordEdward Lewis Nix, of Alpine, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 16, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61E · Line 15
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Communications Center Specialist (72B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- August 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Alpine, Alabama (Talladega County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 16, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 61E, Line 15
- WILLIAM DAVID MCCLAINSergeant · May 16, 1968
- ERNEST C MCCRIMMON JRPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- ELMER MASON NANCEFirst Lieutenant · May 16, 1968
- CLIFTON OLIVERSpecialist Four · May 16, 1968
From Alpine
- LEE WESLEY SWAIN JRSpecialist Four · August 18, 1968
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.