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TOMMY JOE BREHM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 29, 1947 – June 20, 1968
Service recordTommy Joe Brehm, of Ukiah, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 4
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Ukiah, Oregon (Umatilla County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 4
- ROBERT GEORGE ZINKPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- ROSS OWEN BARLOWChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 20, 1968
- THOMAS RAY EDWARDSSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
- STEPHEN WAYNE HADLEYPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL GIGLIOTTIPrivate First Class · Panel 55W, Line 5
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.