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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Ray Ficklin.

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GEORGE RAY FICKLIN

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

April 18, 1941 – May 2, 1967

Service record

George Ray Ficklin, of Delta, Colorado, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 13

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
April 18, 1941
Home of record
Delta, Colorado (Delta County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 2, 1967
Age
26
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Long An Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 13

Same unit, same day

From Delta

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.