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HERSHEL HIGGINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 19, 1947 – January 23, 1968
Service recordHershel Higgins, of Herculaneum, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 16
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Herculaneum, Missouri (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 16
- EMILIO GAMBOA GARCIACorporal · January 23, 1968
- DAVID JOHN KLIPPELSergeant · January 23, 1968
- JOHN FORMAN LOBSINGERSpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- LEE ANDRES LUALLINPrivate First Class · January 23, 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.