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RICHARD ALLEN NICHOLS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 10, 1947 – November 21, 1968
Service recordRichard Allen Nichols, of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 29
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
- Power Generation Equipment Operator/Mechanic (52B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- November 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Point Pleasant, New Jersey (Ocean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1968, 918 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.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 29
- BILLIE JOE ONTISSpecialist Five · November 21, 1968
- GERALD M ORTEGOWarrant Officer 1 · November 21, 1968
- PAUL JOSEPH PAMANETPrivate First Class · November 21, 1968
- CHARLES FREDERICK REINSergeant · November 21, 1968
From Point Pleasant
- CLIFFORD ABDUL MCKENNANPrivate First Class · March 20, 1966
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.