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THOMAS AQUINAS PARKER
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
December 31, 1937 – April 5, 1967
Service recordThomas Aquinas Parker, of Oxford, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 5, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 106
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MARAIRGRU 36
- Born
- December 31, 1937
- Home of record
- Oxford, Indiana (Benton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 106
- PHILIP REGINAL MATTRACIONPetty Officer Second Class · April 5, 1967
- LEONARD IRVIN MOORELance Corporal · April 5, 1967
- DANIEL GARRY PATRICKPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- ROBERT HAROLD PETTITCorporal · April 5, 1967
From Oxford
- WENDELL LEE SLAVENSPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- FRANCIS DAVID GREENWOODPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
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.