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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas John Eischeid.

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THOMAS JOHN EISCHEID

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

September 23, 1948 – May 23, 1968

Service record

Thomas John Eischeid, of Halbur, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 23, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 66E · Line 8

Position of Panel 66E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Steelworker (SW)
Unit (as recorded)
NMCB 3 3 NC BDE
Born
September 23, 1948
Home of record
Halbur, Iowa (Carroll County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 23, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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52 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 66E, Line 8

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.