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THOMAS RANDAL SCALISE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 17, 1948 – August 29, 1968
Service recordThomas Randal Scalise, of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 29, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 2
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Carnegie, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 2
- DONALD WAYNE SIMONSONPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- CLAIBORNE JOHN SKINNERLance Corporal · August 29, 1968
- JOHN BYRON SMITHHospitalman · August 29, 1968
- ELK CARLOS NICHOLAS YELLOWPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
From Carnegie
- FREDERICK PETER LANGERSergeant · February 7, 1966
- THOMAS STORY JESTERSpecialist Four · September 21, 1968
- CLIFFORD EARL HAYNES JRPrivate First Class · May 26, 1969
- ROY JEFFREY BURKESpecialist Four · December 21, 1969
- JAMES LOUIS MCCABE JRSpecialist Four · January 8, 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.