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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Paul Landman.

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THOMAS PAUL LANDMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 15, 1949 – June 7, 1969

Service record

Thomas Paul Landman, of Richmond, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 7, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 102

Position of Panel 23W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
July 15, 1949
Home of record
Richmond, Virginia (Richmond (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 7, 1969
Age
19
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 102

Same unit, same day

From Richmond

All 113 names from Richmond →

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.