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THOMAS LYNN GRIFFEE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 29, 1947 – October 22, 1967
Service recordThomas Lynn Griffee, of Rifle, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 49
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
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 170 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Rifle, Colorado (Garfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 22, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1967; four of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “170 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 49
- MERLE KEITH CARTERFireman · October 22, 1967
- ROBERT LEO EICKHOLTSpecialist Four · October 22, 1967
- BARTON EDWARD HAYNESLance Corporal · October 22, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT JONESLance Corporal · October 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEO EICKHOLTSpecialist Four · Panel 28E, Line 49
- LAWRENCE J STARKWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 28E, Line 50
- PATRICK J SUGHRUEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 28E, Line 52
From Rifle
- JAMES RICHARD SMITHSpecialist Four · September 16, 1967
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.