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THOMAS MEAKIN WHELIHAN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 17, 1947 – September 15, 1968
Service recordThomas Meakin Whelihan, of Winterville, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 15, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 1
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Winterville, North Carolina (Pitt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 15, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 43W, Line 1
- DWIGHT LEE ADAMSPrivate First Class · September 16, 1968
- RAYMOND DELMAR BAKERSpecialist Four · September 16, 1968
- WILBUR RALPH BRANNING JRCorporal · September 16, 1968
- RICHARD JODY MARTINPrivate First Class · September 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES DOUGLAS ARNETTPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 61
- JUAN RAMON FELIX-TORRESSpecialist Four · Panel 44W, Line 62
- DAVID ALLEN FORSYTHESpecialist Four · Panel 44W, Line 63
- ROBERT HERALDPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 64
- JERRY LYNN POEPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 66
- ETHER ARNOLD TINKUMPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 67
From Winterville
- JOSEPHUS DANIELSSergeant · 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.