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WILLIAM F THOMPSON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 15, 1949 – March 24, 1971
Service recordWilliam F Thompson JR, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 74
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- November 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Chelsea, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1971; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 74
- THOMAS CHRIST SHEPHERD SRSergeant First Class · March 24, 1971
- WILLIAM DAVID SMITHSpecialist Four · March 24, 1971
- GREGORY MARTIN STONECorporal · March 24, 1971
- RONALD FREDERICK YALEFirst Lieutenant · March 24, 1971
Same unit, same day
- CURTIS DEAN BAUERSergeant · Panel 4W, Line 72
- HARRY MEDFOR BECKWITH IIISergeant · Panel 4W, Line 72
- DAVID LANGSTON COKER JRCaptain · Panel 4W, Line 72
- JEROME DON KLEINPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 73
- ROBERT DANIEL WALTERSPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 75
From Chelsea
- SHELDON ROBERT COHENPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- MICHAEL THOMAS FITZPATRICKPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- FRANK MICHAEL SOKOLOWSKIPrivate First Class · October 7, 1966
- EVERETT ALBERT ALLENSeaman · July 29, 1967
- EDWARD JOHN ROSSERPrivate First Class · August 16, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD MADIGAN JRPrivate First Class · October 7, 1967
- SALVATORE AGRI JRPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- CYRIL MITCHELL JRSpecialist Four · September 11, 1968
- BRUCE JAMES KENNEDYPrivate First Class · November 14, 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.