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TONY LARUE TATE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 1, 1945 – March 11, 1968
Service recordTony Larue Tate, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 1, 1945
- Home of record
- Thibodaux, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín 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 44E, Line 22
- TERENCE PIERCE THOMASPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- DENNIS ARRON TOADVINECorporal · March 11, 1968
- JEFFREY ARTHUR TURNERPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- JAMES MILTON WARRSergeant · March 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PORTER EARL CALLOWAYStaff Sergeant · Panel 44E, Line 15
- ELDON JOHN KIRKPATRICK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 18
- JAMES LEO NUFERPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 19
- GEORGE HERMAN OEHLERPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 19
- JEFFREY ARTHUR TURNERPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 22
- GERALD FRANCIS WERNSDORFERSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 23
From Thibodaux
- LEROY JOSEPH YOUNGStaff Sergeant · January 23, 1968
- GORDON THOMAS MOLAISONCorporal · May 19, 1968
- ERNEST C WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- PHILIP JOSEPH ORGERONPrivate First Class · July 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.