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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 Mezzles.

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TOMMY MEZZLES

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 12, 1943 – February 28, 1967

Service record

Tommy Mezzles, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 116

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
July 12, 1943
Home of record
Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 28, 1967
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

62 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 116

Same unit, same day

From Memphis

All 227 names from Memphis →

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.