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THOMAS CHARLES TREADWAY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 20, 1943 – August 12, 1968
Service recordThomas Charles Treadway, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 12, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 20, 1943
- Home of record
- Elizabethton, Tennessee (Carter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 3
- DONALD LEE PUMPHREYSergeant · August 12, 1968
- LARRY JOE PURCELLSergeant · August 12, 1968
- RICHARD ALLEN SCOTTSergeant · August 12, 1968
- PETER WALTER SLABINGERCorporal · August 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RALPH PAUL DAYHOFFPrivate First Class · Panel 49W, Line 52
- ROGER DALE HEDDENPrivate First Class · Panel 49W, Line 53
- JOHN AMBROSE MCCLUNGPrivate First Class · Panel 48W, Line 2
- JOSE ANTONIO MATOS-CORREAPrivate First Class · Panel 48W, Line 4
From Elizabethton
- CHARLES EDWARD FULTONAirman First Class · January 2, 1965
- JAMES MITCHELL CORNETTPrivate First Class · March 24, 1966
- DALE ALONZO JOHNSONMajor · October 27, 1966
- GARY MURRAYSpecialist Four · May 24, 1967
- WILLIAM JACK WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 27, 1967
- JOHN PAUL AVERYLance Corporal · October 14, 1967
- BILLY JOE ELLISStaff Sergeant · January 3, 1968
- ROBERT LEE SHAFFERLance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- ROY HASKEL WILSONCaptain · October 22, 1968
- FREDDIE RAY GUINNCorporal · February 23, 1969
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.