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THOMAS EUGENE HOUSTON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 19, 1946 – January 23, 1967
Service recordThomas Eugene Houston, of Terrell, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 70
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Terrell, Texas (Kaufman County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 70
- BILLY WAYNE FLYNNSecond Lieutenant · January 23, 1967
- KENNETH WAYNE KROUSLance Corporal · January 23, 1967
- PETER MACIEL JRCorporal · January 23, 1967
- DANNY DEAN MCGEELance Corporal · January 23, 1967
From Terrell
- LARRY GLEN THRASHERLance Corporal · September 14, 1966
- LONNIE LEO SMITHStaff Sergeant · May 20, 1967
- JOE L LYONSStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1967
- CHARLES EDWIN BENNETTSergeant · February 7, 1968
- GEORGE EDWARD WINFIELDPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- DONALD RAY CRAVENPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- ALBERT DWAYNE WESTERMajor · October 5, 1968
- HARRY H HERNDONSergeant · October 18, 1968
- MERRELL EUGENE BRUMLEY JRLance Corporal · January 25, 1971
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.