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PHILIP LARRY NICHOLS
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 7, 1944 – November 2, 1968
Service recordPhilip Larry Nichols, of Clay, West Virginia, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 9
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 7, 1944
- Home of record
- Clay, West Virginia (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 39W, Line 9
- JACOB MCKIESpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
- ROY WALDO MILLER JRSpecialist Five · November 2, 1968
- MARVIN BURNETT MULLIS JRPrivate First Class · November 2, 1968
- RAYMOND FRANKLIN ORR JRCorporal · November 2, 1968
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.