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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Andrew Sickles.

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JOHN ANDREW SICKLES

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 13, 1947 – June 16, 1967

Service record

John Andrew Sickles, of Laingsburg, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 16, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 116

Position of Panel 21E 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 13, 1947
Home of record
Laingsburg, Michigan (Shiawassee County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 16, 1967
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 95 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 116

Same unit, same day

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.