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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 George Dickson.

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THOMAS GEORGE DICKSON

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 22, 1950 – February 25, 1970

Service record

Thomas George Dickson, of Norwalk, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 25, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 53

Position of Panel 13W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
February 22, 1950
Home of record
Norwalk, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 25, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1970; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 53

From Norwalk

All 38 names from Norwalk →

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.