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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Michael Moreau.

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THOMAS MICHAEL MOREAU

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 18, 1944 – May 15, 1970

Service record

Thomas Michael Moreau, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 46

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
October 18, 1944
Home of record
Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1970
Age
25
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 46

From Pine Bluff

All 23 names from Pine Bluff →

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.