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THOMAS LEE PLANTS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 11, 1940 – June 2, 1965
Service recordThomas Lee Plants, of Medina, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 2, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 130
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Electronics Technician (AT)
- Born
- May 11, 1940
- Home of record
- Medina, Ohio (Medina County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 2, 1965
- Age
- 25
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1965. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 130
- WILLIAM HARRY AMSPACHER JRPetty Officer Third Class · June 2, 1965
- RICHARD EUGENE HEISTERFirst Lieutenant · June 2, 1965
- WERNER ERHARD LUTZCaptain · June 2, 1965
- GERALD MICHAEL ROMANOLieutenant (junior grade) · June 2, 1965
From Medina
- CLARANCE ALLEN MOONEYPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- PAUL OLIVER HARMON JRPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- THOMAS WAYNE BLAKESLEESergeant · December 2, 1968
- JACK HATFIELDSergeant · June 5, 1969
- JEROME PAUL ZINDLEPrivate First Class · June 22, 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.