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TOMMY AUSTIN WIGGINS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
September 15, 1947 – February 6, 1968
Service recordTommy Austin Wiggins, of Mt Carmel, Illinois, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 6, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 74
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Fire Control Man (0844)
- Born
- September 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Mt Carmel, Illinois (Wabash County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; 52 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 74
- DENNIS RAY WALLINCorporal · February 6, 1968
- EARL WELDON WATKINS JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- CARL JOSHUA WIENEKESpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
- JAMES LEROY WISE JRSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
From Mt Carmel
- RALPH HARRY BARLETT JRPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- ROY M ALEXANDERPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
- MICKEY LYNN SWATSLEYSpecialist Four · September 8, 1968
- KEITH MASON PARRSergeant · October 26, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES MCCLANESpecialist Four · December 9, 1969
- DANNY KEITH RAYBORNPrivate First Class · January 6, 1970
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.