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THOMAS EARL CONNER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 13, 1947 – March 8, 1966
Service recordThomas Earl Conner, of Maywood, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 8, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 129
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- April 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Maywood, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 129
- JERDY ALBERT WRIGHT JRColonel · October 31, 1965
- BENJAMIN GEORGE SPEARSSergeant · March 7, 1966
- RICHARD WILLIAM BONDCorporal · March 8, 1966
- PETER SPENCER CONNORStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1966
From Maywood
- GARY LEE JONESSpecialist Four · February 4, 1967
- WILLIAM MICHAEL GEIERSpecialist Four · June 19, 1967
- LARRY ANTHONY HARTIGANHospitalman · February 23, 1969
- EARL THOMAS PEARSON JRPrivate First Class · November 10, 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.