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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Glen Naile.

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THOMAS GLEN NAILE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 25, 1944 – October 28, 1967

Service record

Thomas Glen Naile, of Charleston, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 93

Position of Panel 28E 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 25, 1944
Home of record
Charleston, Missouri (Mississippi County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 28, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 93

Same unit, same day

From Charleston

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.