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NICKEY WADE CUTRELL
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 3, 1946 – January 15, 1969
Service recordNickey Wade Cutrell, of Engelhard, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 6
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- August 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Engelhard, North Carolina (Hyde County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 34W, Line 6
- FRANCIS HENRY CORWIN JRSpecialist Four · January 15, 1969
- STERLING EDWARD COXFirst Lieutenant · January 15, 1969
- WILLIAM ALLEN CURRENCECaptain · January 15, 1969
- HAROLD THOMAS DABNEYSpecialist Four · January 15, 1969
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.