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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Milton Humphery Thomas JR.

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MILTON HUMPHERY THOMAS JR

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 18, 1947 – June 10, 1967

Service record

Milton Humphery Thomas JR, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 10, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 85

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
May 18, 1947
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 10, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 85

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.