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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 Eugene Sauble.

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THOMAS EUGENE SAUBLE

Captain · U.S. Army

January 17, 1932 – March 13, 1967

Service record

Thomas Eugene Sauble, of York, Pennsylvania, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 73

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Ranger (82112)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
January 17, 1932
Home of record
York, Pennsylvania (York County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 13, 1967
Age
35
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 73

From York

All 37 names from York →

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.