The Wall › Panel 42E › Delaware › Thomas B Adams
THOMAS B ADAMS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 6, 1946 – March 4, 1968
Service recordThomas B Adams, of Selbyville, Delaware, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 4, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 60
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Selbyville, Delaware (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 60
- TERRENCE WILLIAM ACHORPrivate First Class · March 4, 1968
- TERRY ERNEST ALLENSpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
- CURTIS EVERETT BAKERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1968
- GEORGE L BARBER IIICaptain · March 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD LEE CLAVERIESpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 62
- GEORGE ROBERT HUTCHINSONSergeant · Panel 42E, Line 66
- RICHARD JOHNSONSpecialist Five · Panel 42E, Line 67
- JAMES RICHARD TOMLINSONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 1
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.