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JOHN LEE THOMPSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 24, 1950 – April 14, 1970
Service recordJohn Lee Thompson, of Gulf Hammock, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 4
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 24, 1950
- Home of record
- Gulf Hammock, Florida (Levy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1970; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 4
- RONALD DOUGLAS SCHULZSpecialist Four · April 14, 1970
- WALTER LEE TAYLOR JRSpecialist Four · April 14, 1970
- DONALD WARREN TINNEY JRSergeant · April 14, 1970
- WALTER CARL BARTLEY JRSergeant · April 15, 1970
Same unit, same day
- DONALD WARREN TINNEY JRSergeant · Panel 11W, Line 4
From Gulf Hammock
- MICHAEL STEVEN OSTEENSpecialist Four · May 5, 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.