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JAMES PATON NICHOLSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 29, 1948 – May 2, 1968
Service recordJames Paton Nicholson, of Eliot, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 14
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Eliot, Maine (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968; 73 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 14
- CLAUDE EDWARD MCQUEENLance Corporal · May 2, 1968
- RICHARD HERBERT NALEYSergeant · May 2, 1968
- FELIX OCASIOLance Corporal · May 2, 1968
- MICHAEL DEE OLIVERPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
From Eliot
- ROBERT JAMES WIGGINStaff Sergeant · February 13, 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.