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TERRIN DINSMORE HICKS
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
October 1, 1936 – August 15, 1968
Service recordTerrin Dinsmore Hicks, of Silver Spring, Maryland, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on August 15, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 18
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1325F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 14 TRS
- Born
- October 1, 1936
- Home of record
- Silver Spring, Maryland (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- August 15, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1968. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “14 TRS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 48W, Line 18
- OSCAR K HIGGINBOTHAM JRCorporal · August 15, 1968
- JAMES KEITH KNUTSONSpecialist Four · August 15, 1968
- MICHAEL EDWARD MEANSPrivate First Class · August 15, 1968
- DERRYL LEE MOORESpecialist Four · August 15, 1968
From Silver Spring
- WAYNE THOMAS LUNDELLSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- TERRY WINTERMOYERSpecialist Four · November 22, 1965
- JAMES EDWARD LOVELance Corporal · December 5, 1965
- JOHN MICHAEL BOWERSLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- WILLIAM ARTHUR STACY JRCaptain · March 21, 1966
- RICHARD CLIFTON SMITHCorporal · April 6, 1966
- RALPH SIMONPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- WILLIAM JOSEPH BOEHMPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- ROBERT HATCHER SWAINPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- WILLIAM ANTHONY WILKSecond Lieutenant · July 29, 1967
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.