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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimbob Bickle.

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JIMBOB BICKLE

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 27, 1934 – May 21, 1968

Service record

Jimbob Bickle, of Helendale, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 21, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 64E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 64E · Line 11

Position of Panel 64E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
Born
December 27, 1934
Home of record
Helendale, California (San Bernardino County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1968
Age
33
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 64E, Line 11

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.