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THOMAS LYNN SNYDER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 26, 1946 – September 14, 1969
Service recordThomas Lynn Snyder, of Amherst, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 14, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 87
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
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- May 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Amherst, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 14, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date September 14, 1969; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 87
- DEWEY VERN RAYPrivate First Class · September 14, 1969
- GARY KELVIN STANFIELDSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
- MARK JOHN STEPHANACSpecialist Five · September 14, 1969
- LARRY EUGENE SWEETSergeant · September 14, 1969
From Amherst
- FLEMING B BRAINERD IIICaptain · May 26, 1965
- WAYNE STANLEY HORVATHPrivate First Class · June 30, 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.