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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Timothy C Abrams JR.

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TIMOTHY C ABRAMS JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 4, 1946 – January 3, 1967

Service record

Timothy C Abrams JR, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 3, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 112

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radio Teletype Operator (05C)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 4, 1946
Home of record
Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Tuscaloosa County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 3, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date January 3, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 112

Same unit, same day

From Tuscaloosa

All 24 names from Tuscaloosa →

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.