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TOM JOSEPH CRESS
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
March 7, 1934 – January 6, 1961
Service recordTom Joseph Cress, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 6, 1961, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 4
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- March 7, 1934
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 6, 1961
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date January 6, 1961. In January 1961, 1 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 1E, Line 4
- WALTER HUGH MOONMajor · April 22, 1961
- BRUCE R JONESSergeant · August 10, 1961
- FLOYD STUDERMaster Sergeant · August 15, 1961
- JAMES THOMAS DAVISSpecialist Four · December 22, 1961
- HERMAN K DURRWACHTER JRCaptain · January 13, 1962
From Milwaukee
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
- EUGENE DOYCE DOLLARSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
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.