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JOHN WILLIAM THOMAS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 22, 1942 – January 10, 1966
Service recordJohn William Thomas, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 22, 1942
- Home of record
- Levittown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 62
- MATTHEW JOHN PECHAITISSecond Lieutenant · January 10, 1966
- HUGH FRED SPAINSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
- CHARLES DELANO SWARTZPrivate First Class · January 10, 1966
- LARRY EARL TENNILLPrivate First Class · January 10, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JERRY NELSON HUGHESPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 61
From Levittown
- JOSEPH PAUL YATSKO JRFirst Lieutenant · December 18, 1965
- ALAN ROBERT SCHULTZLance Corporal · August 11, 1967
- PATRICK ROBERT ROYPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- THEODORE K KALEIKINI JRSergeant · January 18, 1968
- DENNIS THOMAS CUNNANEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- STEVEN MICHAEL BEZENSKISpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- STANLEY R STELLMACH JRSergeant · April 14, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS DEENY IIIPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- ARTHUR MICHAEL DAYSpecialist Five · May 8, 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.