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HAROLD TOMPKINS
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
August 21, 1931 – April 10, 1968
Service recordHarold Tompkins, of Warner Robins, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 10, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 16
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Born
- August 21, 1931
- Home of record
- Warner Robins, Georgia (Houston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 16
- STEVE KLARIKSpecialist Five · April 10, 1968
- YLDEFONSO SOLA-MALDONADOLance Corporal · April 10, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH SOWINSKICorporal · April 10, 1968
- MICHAEL PETER UMELPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
From Warner Robins
- HARRY MOSS KITCHENSStaff Sergeant · August 2, 1966
- ALTON JIMMY FENNELLPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- ANTHONY GORDON CHANDLERPetty Officer Second Class · June 16, 1968
- ALVIN MAYNARD SLATONCorporal · March 5, 1969
- WAYNE YEARWOOD STEWARTPrivate First Class · April 7, 1969
- DAVID MARTIN ALLENWarrant Officer 1 · October 10, 1970
- DAVID EUGENE BRYANTSergeant · October 19, 1970
- DAVID LEE WAGNERTechnical Sergeant · May 17, 1972
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.