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SAMMY LEE THOMPSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 20, 1946 – November 24, 1965
Service recordSammy Lee Thompson, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 112
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 20, 1946
- Home of record
- St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 24, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 112
- ROBIN ARTHUR RARIGPrivate First Class · November 23, 1965
- CLEO SMITHCorporal · November 24, 1965
- DANIEL FERREL TALLMANPrivate First Class · November 24, 1965
- TERRY LEE BLYTHESpecialist Four · November 25, 1965
Same unit, same day
- CLEO SMITHCorporal · Panel 3E, Line 112
- DANIEL FERREL TALLMANPrivate First Class · Panel 3E, Line 112
From St Louis
- EDDIE LOUIS SMITHStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
- HAROLD DALE MEYERKORDLieutenant · March 16, 1965
- GEORGE CRAIG SMITHMajor · April 3, 1965
- TERRY WAYNE MILLSSpecialist Four · April 19, 1965
- DONNIE D EZELLStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- RONALD JOHN WARRENStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- DALE LEROY TOOLOOSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1965
- JOSEPH L TSCHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 1965
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.