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JAMES HERBERT FLICKINGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 8, 1945 – May 3, 1967
Service recordJames Herbert Flickinger, of Burbank, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Burbank, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault 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 19E, Line 25
- ROBERT WALDRON FORBUSH JRPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- RICKY MARK GILBERTSONPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- AMADOR L GONZALEZSpecialist Four · May 3, 1967
- WILLIS RAY HEAVINSergeant · May 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH CAUDILLOCaptain · Panel 19E, Line 22
- CHARLES FRANKLIN JOHNSONSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 26
- CHESTER GALE JORDANPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 27
- RALPH EDWARD MOOREPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 29
- GLENDELL MORGANSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 29
- LEE HENDERSON RUSSSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 32
From Burbank
- DONALD EDWARD CLOSECaptain · May 15, 1965
- JAMES ALVIN BEENELieutenant Commander · October 5, 1966
- STEVEN DAVID FRANCISPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
- STEPHEN DONALD PLEASANTPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- STEPHEN PAUL HANSONMajor · June 3, 1967
- WAYNE EDWIN HALSTEADLance Corporal · June 20, 1967
- RONALD REED KINGCorporal · September 21, 1967
- TERRY MICHAEL ENRIQUEZPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- DOUGLAS RAY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- JACK PYEATT WILSON JRSpecialist Four · February 2, 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.