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JOHN HAROLD TOMENY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 2, 1946 – May 22, 1968
Service recordJohn Harold Tomeny, of Hackensack, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66E · Line 1
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aeroscout Observer (93B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Hackensack, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 66E, Line 1
- FRED HARRISON OSBURN JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1968
- RAYMOND BERNARD RALLSPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- MELVIN DOUGLAS RASHChief Master Sergeant · May 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LIONEL TIMOTHY CLOVERSergeant · Panel 65E, Line 6
- STEVEN GARY HICKSSpecialist Four · Panel 65E, Line 11
From Hackensack
- JOHN D MORGANSergeant · June 30, 1966
- ANTHONY JOSEPH GADDA JRPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- ROBERT PATRICK GANDILPrivate First Class · December 18, 1966
- VINCENT JAMES WEEDO JRPrivate First Class · January 28, 1967
- JOHN COYLESpecialist Four · March 29, 1967
- HAROLD JEROME DILLARDLance Corporal · May 25, 1967
- MANUEL MOORESpecialist Five · April 30, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL KOZAKSecond Lieutenant · May 11, 1970
- JOHN BENJAMIN ABBATEMARCOSergeant · May 13, 1970
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.