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THOMAS LEE WESTPOINT
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 8, 1941 – September 30, 1966
Service recordThomas Lee Westpoint, of Charleston, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 8, 1941
- Home of record
- Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 30, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 29
- WALTER MARCUMPrivate First Class · September 29, 1966
- CRISTOBAL MELENDEZSergeant First Class · September 29, 1966
- BOOKER SMITH JRStaff Sergeant · September 29, 1966
- SAUL WAXMANMajor · September 29, 1966
Same unit, same day
- LANHAM ODELL BROYLESSpecialist Four · Panel 11E, Line 30
- ELMER EUGENE COTNEYSpecialist Four · Panel 11E, Line 30
From Charleston
- CLARENCE LARRY MOORERCaptain · December 12, 1963
- THEODORE RICHARDSONSpecialist Four · October 2, 1965
- CHARLES GALE DUSINGChief Master Sergeant · October 31, 1965
- EARL CLAYTON GRAHAMSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- HAROLD T EDMONDSON JRCorporal · January 30, 1966
- JAMES BRADLEYSergeant · February 5, 1966
- BURTON ALEXANDER BLANTONCaptain · March 30, 1966
- WALTER H ANDERSONPrivate First Class · April 16, 1966
- RANDOLPH CLINTON SCOTTPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- HAROLD MACK JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
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.