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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Newton Sloan.

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THOMAS NEWTON SLOAN

Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

August 13, 1937 – December 17, 1965

Service record

Thomas Newton Sloan, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 17, 1965, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 20

Position of Panel 4E 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. Air Force
Rank
Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
Service
Regular
Born
August 13, 1937
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 17, 1965
Age
28
Province
Ninh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date December 17, 1965; nine of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 20

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.