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THOMAS LEE BLATZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 2, 1951 – April 4, 1971
Service recordThomas Lee Blatz, of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 105
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- February 2, 1951
- Home of record
- Shepherdsville, Kentucky (Bullitt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1971; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 105
- KRAG COLT BULLIS SRStaff Sergeant · April 4, 1971
- MICHAEL EVERETT GIESECorporal · April 4, 1971
- BENNY EUGENE HARTSpecialist Four · April 4, 1971
- ROBERT WILLIAM HOMSCHEKPrivate First Class · April 4, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WILLIAM HOMSCHEKPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 105
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.