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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Isham Ike Quick.

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ISHAM IKE QUICK

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 10, 1931 – September 27, 1968

Service record

Isham Ike Quick, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 42W · Line 32

Position of Panel 42W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
July 10, 1931
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 27, 1968
Age
37
Province
Quang Duc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 42W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.