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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 Robert Davis Hickox.

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ROBERT DAVIS HICKOX

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 10, 1948 – July 15, 1968

Service record

Robert Davis Hickox, of Seattle, Washington, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52W · Line 35

Position of Panel 52W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
April 10, 1948
Home of record
Seattle, Washington (King County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 15, 1968
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1968; eight of them were lost in Long An Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 52W, Line 35

Same unit, same day

From Seattle

All 238 names from Seattle →

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.