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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stuart Harold Thomson.

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STUART HAROLD THOMSON

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 17, 1937 – January 29, 1968

Service record

Stuart Harold Thomson, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 63

Position of Panel 35E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
July 17, 1937
Home of record
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 29, 1968
Age
30
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 63

From Milwaukee

All 204 names from Milwaukee →

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.