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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 Warren.

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THOMAS ALLEN WARREN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 9, 1948 – August 4, 1968

Service record

Thomas Allen Warren, of Albion, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 4, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49W · Line 11

Position of Panel 49W 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 9, 1948
Home of record
Albion, Pennsylvania (Erie County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 4, 1968
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date August 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 49W, Line 11

Same unit, same day

From Albion

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.