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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Francis Uhl.

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THOMAS FRANCIS UHL

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 15, 1949 – October 27, 1967

Service record

Thomas Francis Uhl, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 87

Position of Panel 28E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
February 15, 1949
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 27, 1967
Age
18
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 87

From New York

All 1370 names from New 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.