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TOMAS C TUCKER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 19, 1943 – November 8, 1969
Service recordTomas C Tucker, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1969, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 48
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 19, 1943
- Home of record
- Chattanooga, Tennessee (Hamilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 8, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Giang Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 16W, Line 48
- ARIEL JAMES SMITHSpecialist Four · November 8, 1969
- RODNEY CARL TURNERSpecialist Four · November 8, 1969
- MICHAEL GENE BUCKMASTERPrivate First Class · November 9, 1969
- MICHAEL ANDREW BUSTAMANTECorporal · November 9, 1969
From Chattanooga
- JIMMY RICHARD GRIFFINSergeant · March 22, 1963
- GEORGE WILLIS MARTINSergeant First Class · October 11, 1964
- ARTHUR EUGENE NORMANAirman Second Class · January 16, 1965
- GLENN HOWELL KELLEYSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- JAMES T GRAYSergeant · April 24, 1965
- VIRGIL KIRKLAND JRSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- KENNETH LEON STANCILChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 28, 1965
- ELIJAH GOAR TOLLETT JRMajor · January 12, 1966
- RAPHNELL J MERONEYSergeant · January 29, 1966
- BILLY BROWN DAYPrivate · February 22, 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.