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DONALD LEROY THOMAS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 22, 1948 – August 6, 1967
Service recordDonald Leroy Thomas, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 6, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 85
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 6, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date August 6, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 85
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GOFFREDOPrivate First Class · August 6, 1967
- JERRY LEE SPENCERPrivate First Class · August 6, 1967
- FREDERICK DERL WOODAirman First Class · August 6, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT ANELIPrivate First Class · August 7, 1967
From Shippensburg
- COURTNEY PRICE HOLLAR JRMajor · May 5, 1964
- GARY LEE LININGERPrivate First Class · January 16, 1967
- DANA EDWARD DIEHLPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- JAMES BIRCH PETTEYSWarrant Officer 1 · January 15, 1969
- RONALD EUGENE NEWELLSergeant · July 7, 1969
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.