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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 Joseph Francis Schlick.

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JOSEPH FRANCIS SCHLICK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 11, 1947 – March 28, 1968

Service record

Joseph Francis Schlick, of Warrenville, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46E · Line 59

Position of Panel 46E 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
Regular
Occupation
Clerk-Typist (71B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 11, 1947
Home of record
Warrenville, Illinois (Du Page County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 28, 1968
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; six of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 46E, Line 59

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.