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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 Steven Lipp.

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THOMAS STEVEN LIPP

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 20, 1948 – May 30, 1970

Service record

Thomas Steven Lipp, of Glenside, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 30, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10W · Line 124

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 1 BN 7 CAV
Born
July 20, 1948
Home of record
Glenside, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 30, 1970
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

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17 names on the Wall carry the date May 30, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Glenside

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.