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TOMMIE LEE SILLS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 27, 1938 – April 3, 1966
Service recordTommie Lee Sills, of Waycross, Georgia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 82
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Crewmember (13B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A BTRY 2 BN 32 ARTY II FF
- Born
- January 27, 1938
- Home of record
- Waycross, Georgia (Ware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 82
- DONOVAN JESS PRUETTStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1966
- HAMP JUROME SYKES JRPrivate First Class · April 3, 1966
- JOHN C WRONSKIPrivate First Class · April 3, 1966
- CLEVELAND FOSTERStaff Sergeant · April 4, 1966
From Waycross
- WILLIAM THOMAS REACHFirst Lieutenant · January 9, 1965
- ROBERT WESLEY HARDEN JRSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- JAMES DALE HAWESPrivate First Class · November 11, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD MULLISSpecialist Four · October 23, 1967
- WILLIAM ARLAND GRIFFISStaff Sergeant · May 25, 1968
- ALBERT WILSON SIRMANS JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- ALLEN DONIHUE CHESHIRESpecialist Four · February 2, 1969
- CLEVELAND BROWNINGCorporal · May 23, 1969
- NORMAN ROGER SWEATStaff Sergeant · October 6, 1969
- PERRY BERNARD HOPKINSPrivate First Class · October 30, 1969
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.