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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Dennis Nadeau.

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THOMAS DENNIS NADEAU

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 27, 1948 – August 11, 1968

Service record

Thomas Dennis Nadeau, of Nashua, New Hampshire, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 11, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49W · Line 48

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Special Purpose Materiel Supply Specialist (76Q)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
December 27, 1948
Home of record
Nashua, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 11, 1968
Age
19
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date August 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 49W, Line 48

From Nashua

All 18 names from Nashua →

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.