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EUGENE STANLEY HICKS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 29, 1948 – January 16, 1968
Service recordEugene Stanley Hicks, of Arcadia, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 16, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Arcadia, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 16, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 16, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 58
- ORVILLE DALE COOLEYLieutenant · January 16, 1968
- PAUL STUART GEECaptain · January 16, 1968
- MICHAEL O ROY GLENNCorporal · January 16, 1968
- DOUGLAS DEAN HOLLANDPrivate First Class · January 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KEVIN JAMES MAGUIRESpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 59
- HOMER EARL PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 60
- HAROLD E STANTONStaff Sergeant · Panel 34E, Line 60
- JOHN HOLGER WRISBERG IIISpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 61
From Arcadia
- RODNEY WILLARD CASSELMANPrivate First Class · August 4, 1966
- CRAIG RAY SCHOENBAUMSpecialist Four · June 9, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARDS CAMPBELLFirst Lieutenant · June 21, 1967
- RICHARD RAY IRWIN JRPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- VAUGHN MAURICE HINESPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- EDWARD ARTHUR ZAGERSecond Lieutenant · April 9, 1968
- ROGER ALLEN BOOMSMAPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- JAMES CARL FOXPrivate First Class · March 30, 1969
- JAMES ANDREW LEACHPrivate First Class · April 24, 1969
- PATRICK MICHAEL WARDCaptain · September 11, 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.