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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Tommy Doyle Higgerson.

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TOMMY DOYLE HIGGERSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 3, 1945 – March 1, 1967

Service record

Tommy Doyle Higgerson, of East Prairie, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 15E · Line 128

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 3, 1945
Home of record
East Prairie, Missouri (Mississippi County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 1, 1967
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 15E, Line 128

From East Prairie

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.