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THOMAS HEPBURN PERRY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 19, 1942 – May 10, 1968
Service recordThomas Hepburn Perry, of Canton, Connecticut, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on May 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 13
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 19, 1942
- Home of record
- Canton, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 10, 1968
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Tín 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.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 58E, Line 13
- ROBERT CRANLEY ONSLOWCaptain · May 10, 1968
- LARRY GENE PATTERSONSpecialist Four · May 10, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL POWELLPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
- HOWARD EMERSON QUERRYSergeant · May 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GLENN EDWIN MILLERSergeant · Panel 58E, Line 11
- THOMAS FREDRICK SWANN JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 58E, Line 16
From Canton
- ROBERT L SCHEIDEL JRCorporal · April 11, 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.