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ERIK BERNARD WICKENBERG
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 16, 1946 – July 6, 1967
Service recordErik Bernard Wickenberg, of Bertha, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 6, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 24
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Bertha, Minnesota (Todd County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 24
- LEON LOUIS VIVETTELance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- MILES EUGENE WHITEPrivate First Class · July 6, 1967
- BRUCE JOSEPH ALLENPrivate First Class · July 7, 1967
- KENNETH RAY ANDERSONSpecialist Four · July 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM JOSEPH PRICESergeant · Panel 23E, Line 22
From Bertha
- WILLIAM OSCAR WAGNERSpecialist Four · April 8, 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.