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DENNIS WAYNE THOMPSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 5, 1946 – May 18, 1968
Service recordDennis Wayne Thompson, of Paterson, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 63E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 63E · Line 2
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Paterson, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 63E, Line 2
- CHRISTOPHER J SCHERERSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- JOHNNY WAYNE SITTENLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- NEIL BRIAN SULLIVANCorporal · May 18, 1968
- JAMES NELSON YOUMANSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEWIS PATRICK IORIOSergeant · Panel 62E, Line 19
- DONALD RICHARD MATESergeant · Panel 62E, Line 20
- CARL FREDRICK SCHMALZ JRSergeant · Panel 63E, Line 1
From Paterson
- JESSE JAMES JRLance Corporal · June 23, 1965
- LLOYD VINCENT GREENESergeant · November 8, 1965
- RAFAEL SANTIAGO-CRUZPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- WILLIAM HOBSON HUBBARDSergeant First Class · March 16, 1966
- PETER FRANCIS MEADPetty Officer Third Class · May 21, 1966
- JOHN HENRY LADUKELance Corporal · April 20, 1967
- WLADMIR WILLIAM ZUBARSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- VINCENT JAMES GABRIEL JRPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- DONALD IANDOLISergeant · November 19, 1967
- ARTHUR JORDANPrivate First Class · January 10, 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.