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THOMAS EDWARD SHEPPARD
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
March 20, 1935 – November 22, 1968
Service recordThomas Edward Sheppard, of Lake Worth, Florida, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 22, 1968, in An Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 38
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 First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Commissaryman (CS)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USS MERCER APB 39
- Born
- March 20, 1935
- Home of record
- Lake Worth, Florida (Palm Beach County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 22, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- An Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in An Giang Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 38
- JAMES KIETH SANDERPetty Officer Third Class · November 22, 1968
- RAYMOND PAUL SANTORAPrivate First Class · November 22, 1968
- JAMES WALTER SINCEREPrivate First Class · November 22, 1968
- PAUL ANDREW STEINPrivate First Class · November 22, 1968
From Lake Worth
- ARLEN JACKSON DUCKETT JRPrivate First Class · February 23, 1966
- LEE ANDREW RAWNPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- RAYMOND PATRICK REILLYLance Corporal · August 29, 1968
- WALTER EDWARD GIERMAN IILance Corporal · April 16, 1969
- ISMAEL SOLISPrivate First Class · May 9, 1969
- DON LEE UNGERCaptain · May 3, 1972
- JACK ROCKWOOD HARVEYCaptain · November 28, 1972
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.