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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 Tom Jay Bagenstose.

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TOM JAY BAGENSTOSE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 13, 1947 – August 30, 1967

Service record

Tom Jay Bagenstose, of Reading, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 67

Position of Panel 25E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 13, 1947
Home of record
Reading, Pennsylvania (Berks County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 30, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 67

Same unit, same day

From Reading

All 26 names from Reading →

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.