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THOMAS ALLEN GRIMES
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 7, 1941 – January 8, 1968
Service recordThomas Allen Grimes, of Peru, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 88
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- March 7, 1941
- Home of record
- Peru, Indiana (Miami County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 88
- STEPHEN BENJAMIN KIRSCHNERPrivate · January 8, 1968
- RICHARD GREGORY LIGHTBOURNESpecialist Four · January 8, 1968
- PAUL JOHNSON LIVELYPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID MARKSPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN JOSEPH UGINOPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 1
From Peru
- MICHAEL J MILLERSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- DAVID ALAN MARKSSpecialist Four · January 28, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL MILLERPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- LINDEN DALE EILER JRCorporal · April 25, 1968
- IVOL MICHEAL YORKSergeant · April 28, 1968
- WARD EUGENE SEESergeant · October 1, 1968
- MICHAEL GRANT OCONNELLSecond Lieutenant · October 27, 1969
- WAYNE ELDON KAUFMANPetty Officer Third Class · February 14, 1970
- LEWIS ALAN WALTONWarrant Officer 1 · December 9, 1971
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.