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Gunners of the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery prepare to fire a 175 mm gun.
Gunners of the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery prepare to fire a 175 mm gun. Photo: SP5 Kevin Malone, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Francis Regan.

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THOMAS FRANCIS REGAN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 3, 1944 – September 18, 1967

Service record

Thomas Francis Regan, of Falls Church, Virginia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 89

Position of Panel 26E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Officer (I) (0802)
Born
April 3, 1944
Home of record
Falls Church, Virginia (Falls Church (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 18, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. 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 26E, Line 89

From Falls Church

All 22 names from Falls Church →

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.