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THOMAS FRANCIS DAZEY JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 25, 1944 – April 9, 1968
Service recordThomas Francis Dazey JR, of Neenah, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 57
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- December 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Neenah, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 57
- JAMES RUSSELL CHINNSpecialist Five · April 9, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM COOPERSpecialist Five · April 9, 1968
- PATRICK CHARLES COUGHLINPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- JAMES DALE DILLONStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SALVATORE AGRI JRPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 56
- DENNIS WAYNE REEDPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 5
- EDWARD ARTHUR ZAGERSecond Lieutenant · Panel 49E, Line 7
From Neenah
- JOHN PAUL PAULSON JRSpecialist Four · December 11, 1967
- GENE JAY HOWARDSpecialist Five · April 2, 1968
- ANDREW L HEIDERPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- ROBERT GERDES BLANKPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
- KENNETH GEORGE LIEBHABERPrivate First Class · February 17, 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.