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TROY TONY THREET
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 8, 1947 – February 10, 1968
Service recordTroy Tony Threet, of Elyria, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 73
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Elyria, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 73
- GEORGE STANLEY SUTTONSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- WILLIE CHARLES TORRENCEPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- LUIS FELIPE VELEZPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- GEORGE WILCOX WALBRIDGEStaff Sergeant · February 10, 1968
From Elyria
- JAMES DAVID SMITHPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- JAMES CALVIN WHITMOREPrivate First Class · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL DRENNEN MILBURNLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- GEORGE WESLEY DEJARNETTSpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
- DONNIE STANLEY KEGGPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- NORMAN JONES JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JOHN LESTER BEGANPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- WILLIAM EARL FOSTER JRSpecialist Four · September 12, 1968
- CALVIN KERMIT COONLance Corporal · September 18, 1968
- JOSEPH GEORGE AMBROSIOSpecialist Four · September 27, 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.