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THOMAS DWAIN GRIFFIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 8, 1949 – June 20, 1970
Service recordThomas Dwain Griffin, of Mayodan, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 73
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Mayodan, North Carolina (Rockingham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1970. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 9W, Line 73
- MERRIL HOLTPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
- FREDERICK WAYNE HOPSONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
- LARRY JOSEPH LOWTHERSpecialist Five · June 20, 1970
- JOSEPH PATRICK LUTZSpecialist Four · June 20, 1970
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS LEE CUSSONPrivate First Class · Panel 9W, Line 72
- MERRIL HOLTPrivate First Class · Panel 9W, Line 73
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.