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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Levil Hicks.

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LEVIL HICKS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 15, 1945 – June 29, 1969

Service record

Levil Hicks, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 29, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 31

Position of Panel 21W 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
Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
March 15, 1945
Home of record
Houston, Texas (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 29, 1969
Age
24
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date June 29, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 31

From Houston

All 358 names from Houston →

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.