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THOMAS L TERRY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 28, 1928 – July 4, 1967
Service recordThomas L Terry, of Ansted, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 4, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 8
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
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- November 28, 1928
- Home of record
- Ansted, West Virginia (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1967
- Age
- 38
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 23E, Line 8
- ROBERT WILLIAMS SWIGARTCaptain · July 4, 1967
- JAMES EDDY TURNERPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- SAMUEL EARNEST WITCHERSergeant · July 4, 1967
- ROBERT A WOODROWSpecialist Four · July 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MARLIN JAMES GOODHUESergeant First Class · Panel 23E, Line 3
From Ansted
- JAMES EDWARD LOCKETTStaff Sergeant · April 20, 1970
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.