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JERRY DENVER THOMAS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 14, 1948 – May 15, 1969
Service recordJerry Denver Thomas, of Syracuse, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 22
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)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Syracuse, Indiana (Kosciusko County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 22
- EDDIE WENDELL SNIPESPrivate First Class · May 15, 1969
- WALTER ROBERT STACYWarrant Officer 1 · May 15, 1969
- RICHARD WILLIAM STINDLPetty Officer Third Class · May 15, 1969
- AMADO ACOSTA VALENCIASpecialist Four · May 15, 1969
From Syracuse
- ROBERT WAYNE ELLISSpecialist Four · February 29, 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.