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TOMMY DAVE SMITH
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 22, 1934 – April 24, 1971
Service recordTommy Dave Smith, of Hartshorne, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 24, 1971, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 9
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 22, 1934
- Home of record
- Hartshorne, Oklahoma (Pittsburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 24, 1971
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 24, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 9
- KEVIN ALONZO RINARDFirst Lieutenant · April 24, 1971
- JOHNNIE RAE SLYSpecialist Four · April 24, 1971
- JOSE ANTONIO SOTO-FIGUEROASergeant · April 24, 1971
- ROBERT FRITZ SPEERSpecialist Five · April 24, 1971
- DIETER HERBERT DISCHHAUSERSpecialist Four · August 10, 1971
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE DONALD STEPHENSONSergeant · Panel 3W, Line 10
From Hartshorne
- EARNEST LANE REYNOLDSLance Corporal · December 8, 1968
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.