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THOMAS LEE ZEIGLER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 22, 1949 – March 22, 1971
Service recordThomas Lee Zeigler, of Hamill, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1971, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Hamill, South Dakota (Tripp County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 69
- CLARENCE MYRON SUCHONCorporal · March 22, 1971
- JOHN GROVE TRAVER IIIWarrant Officer 1 · March 22, 1971
- GARY SIDNEY WHITESpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
- SHERMAN AVANTSergeant · March 23, 1971
Same unit, same day
- CLARENCE MYRON SUCHONCorporal · Panel 4W, Line 69
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.