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HAROLD S HIGGINBOTHAM
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 14, 1948 – February 3, 1968
Service recordHarold S Higginbotham, of Coral Gables, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- July 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Coral Gables, Florida (Dade County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 8
- LESLIE LAWRENCE COWDENSpecialist Five · February 3, 1968
- LEON HAMNERSpecialist Four · February 3, 1968
- EDWARD WENDELL HUGHEYPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- CHARLES SID JACKSONPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK ANTHONY AZZARITO JRPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 3
- ROBERT IRVING BALLARDFirst Lieutenant · Panel 37E, Line 3
- MICHAEL BERNARD CERVERASpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 4
- HAROLD LEROY GRAYPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 7
- EDWARD WENDELL HUGHEYPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 8
- HOI TIN LAUPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 10
- EDWARD MANOWSKIPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 10
- DAVID QUINONESPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 12
- EUGENE DURWOOD TREADWELLSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 15
From Coral Gables
- GEORGE E CHAMBERLIN JRLieutenant Colonel · May 5, 1964
- GARY DOUGLAS HOPPSLieutenant · February 10, 1966
- MANUEL E MESA JRSergeant · April 27, 1967
- JERRY A NORRISSergeant · May 14, 1967
- DOUGLAS GRAHAM MAGRUDERFirst Lieutenant · November 18, 1967
- WILLIAM EDMOND WHITE IIICorporal · January 29, 1968
- ARTHUR ROGER DUKES JRSergeant · July 17, 1968
- JOHN HARLAN SWEETFirst Lieutenant · August 5, 1969
- DAVID DARYL WOOTENSergeant · September 25, 1970
- JAY JOHN FISHBECKSpecialist Five · March 26, 1971
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.