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THOMAS CHARLES ELDRIDGE
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
June 16, 1947 – December 13, 1968
Service recordThomas Charles Eldridge, of New Iberia, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 13, 1968, in Sa Dec Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 15
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- June 16, 1947
- Home of record
- New Iberia, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Sa Dec
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Sa Dec Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 15
- JOSEPH PETER FANNINGMajor · December 13, 1968
- LEON ROY FIELDSergeant First Class · December 13, 1968
- EARL RICHARD FRAYSergeant · December 13, 1968
- ROBERT RANDY FREGIASpecialist Four · December 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES C RALPH LEWISPetty Officer First Class · Panel 36W, Line 16
From New Iberia
- KENNETH LEE FREITAGHospitalman · May 2, 1966
- ROGER CHARLES COLLETTEPrivate First Class · May 4, 1966
- PERRY EDDISON THOMPSONPrivate First Class · July 24, 1968
- GLENN BURLEIGH RAOPrivate First Class · February 26, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM GRACEMajor · June 14, 1969
- LARRY JOSEPH LONCONSpecialist Four · April 27, 1970
- DANNIE FITCHPrivate First Class · May 13, 1970
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.