Rank: Specialist 5
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 91B – Medical Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Medic attached to I Troop, 3/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 18-May-1946
Hometown: Crystal Springs, Mississippi
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 1-Jun-1965
Start of tour: 23-Aug-1966
Incident date: 21-Mar-1967
Date of casualty: 21-Mar-1967
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
German Lee Nicholson was passenger in armored personnel carrier on ambush patrol when vehicle hit a hostile land mine.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PVT William Arthur Brown
SP4 Miles Joseph McLoughlin
SP5 German Lee Nicholson
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Egypt Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Crystal Springs, Mississippi, USA
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