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JAMES RUSH HICKMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 29, 1941 – December 31, 1965
Service recordJames Rush Hickman, of Philippi, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 46
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)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- December 29, 1941
- Home of record
- Philippi, West Virginia (Barbour County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 31, 1965
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 46
- CHARLES EDWARD SISSELPrivate First Class · December 29, 1965
- DONALD RAYMOND DUFFY JRSergeant · December 31, 1965
- ROBERT LEE KRAUSSpecialist Four · December 31, 1965
- JACK DALE MCCLURECaptain · December 31, 1965
Same unit, same day
- ALVIN RICHARD WOODS JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4E, Line 47
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.