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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Allen Nebel.

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THOMAS ALLEN NEBEL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 3, 1948 – May 28, 1969

Service record

Thomas Allen Nebel, of Keota, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 10

Position of Panel 23W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
July 3, 1948
Home of record
Keota, Iowa (Keokuk County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1969
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1969; seven of them were lost in Long An Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Keota

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.