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JAMES CLIFFORD NICHOLSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 19, 1921 – January 2, 1969
Service recordJames Clifford Nicholson, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 47. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Counterintelligence Analyst (97B)
- Born
- May 19, 1921
- Home of record
- Altoona, Pennsylvania (Blair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1969
- Age
- 47
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1969. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 20
- ROBERT WAYNE JANTZWarrant Officer 1 · January 2, 1969
- ROSS ARNOLD JOHNSON JRPrivate · January 2, 1969
- LEE ELMER MOORE JRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1969
- MELVIN DAVID MORGAN JRSpecialist Five · January 2, 1969
From Altoona
- JOSEPH WILLIAM SCHUSTERCorporal · June 1, 1966
- ALFRED JAMES KIBLERLance Corporal · October 6, 1966
- DENNIS M SPAHNSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- WILLIAM JOEL RICKMANPrivate First Class · April 3, 1967
- EDWARD PHILIP SZEYLLERLieutenant · April 4, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD CAREYLance Corporal · April 21, 1967
- ROBERT CARL DAMBECKMaster Sergeant · July 7, 1967
- NICHOLAS CHARLES BIANCONICorporal · July 24, 1967
- GEAN PRESTON CLAPPERChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- SHELDON D SCHULTZChief Warrant Officer 3 · January 5, 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.