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SILAS LUCAS HICKS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 12, 1947 – May 3, 1969
Service recordSilas Lucas Hicks JR, of Hyattsville, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 106
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Hyattsville, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 106
- ROBERT WILLIAM BOWESergeant · May 3, 1969
- LLEWELLYN PAUL DICKENSONSpecialist Four · May 3, 1969
- RICHARD CALUDE GARCIAStaff Sergeant · May 3, 1969
- DAVID LAVERNE GIRARDOLance Corporal · May 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LARRY CHARLES BEEBEStaff Sergeant · Panel 26W, Line 105
- DAVID ANTHONY LACOURSESergeant · Panel 26W, Line 107
- EARL PATRICK SNOWSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 109
From Hyattsville
- UWE-THORSTEN SCOBELCaptain · March 25, 1964
- JOHN QUINCY QUESENBERRYPrivate First Class · July 9, 1966
- STEPHEN MICHAEL DYDYNSKIPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
- PAUL LEROY HARRISONPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JOSEPH RAYMOND SMITHSpecialist Four · April 17, 1967
- DAVID KEITH HOLDWAYLance Corporal · May 3, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES HOOVERPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- THOMAS RAY KINGWarrant Officer 1 · December 16, 1967
- ALTON LAMOTTE WATKINS JRCorporal · January 2, 1968
- EUGENE EDWARD SWIFTSeaman · March 9, 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.