The Wall › Panel 12E › Ohio › Herbert James Nece
HERBERT JAMES NECE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 3, 1942 – November 30, 1966
Service recordHerbert James Nece, of Mesopotamia, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 130
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Born
- May 3, 1942
- Home of record
- Mesopotamia, Ohio (Trumbull County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 130
- JOHN MORTON ROPERMajor · November 29, 1966
- STEPHEN CARL SHARPFireman · November 29, 1966
- RAYMOND BERNAL JRSpecialist Four · November 30, 1966
- FRANK W CHADWICK JRPrivate First Class · November 30, 1966
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.