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THOMAS MACMILLAN
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
August 24, 1948 – March 6, 1968
Service recordThomas Macmillan, of Leominster, Massachusetts, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 28
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Leominster, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
140 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1968; 70 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43E, Line 28
- WINFORD MCCOSARLance Corporal · March 6, 1968
- FLOYD MCFADDENSpecialist Four · March 6, 1968
- FRED C MCHUGH JRPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- LARRY MUNOZCorporal · March 6, 1968
From Leominster
- GEORGE EDWARD ONEILLSecond Lieutenant · September 28, 1966
- FRANKLIN GEORGE HAZZARDLance Corporal · May 18, 1967
- BYRON STEVEN JOHNSONSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- DAVID ALLEN HILLPrivate First Class · February 13, 1969
- WAYNE ROBERT DAVISSpecialist Four · August 22, 1970
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.