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THOMAS FREDRICK SWANN JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 13, 1942 – May 10, 1968
Service recordThomas Fredrick Swann JR, of Elizabethtown, North Carolina, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 16
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 13, 1942
- Home of record
- Elizabethtown, North Carolina (Bladen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 58E, Line 16
- HERSHALL TALLENTSergeant · May 10, 1968
- HERMAN L TAYLORSpecialist Four · May 10, 1968
- DAVID GEORGE THOMASSpecialist Four · May 10, 1968
- ARTHUR CASTILLO TIJERINAPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GLENN EDWIN MILLERSergeant · Panel 58E, Line 11
- THOMAS HEPBURN PERRYSergeant First Class · Panel 58E, Line 13
From Elizabethtown
- WILLIAM R RUSSPrivate First Class · November 7, 1967
- DAVID SMITH IISpecialist Four · June 23, 1968
- ARTHUR R NEWKIRKSpecialist Five · May 25, 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.