Jack Thomas, Jr
Sergeant
B CO, 2ND BN, 12TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Fort Jackson, South Carolina
October 14, 1939 to January 31, 1966
JACK THOMAS Jr is on the Wall at Panel 4E, Line 126

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25 Oct 2006

Jack,
If it wasn't for you, my name would be on the Wall, too.

From a member of his fire team,
Al Zeller
zeller@nscl.msu.edu


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

According to David Sigler's "Vietnam Battle Chronology" elements of the 1st Cavalry Division engaged the 7th and 9th Battalions, 33rd NVA Regiment, near the hamlet of Cu Nghi about eight miles north of Bong Son in Binh Dinh Province. The bloody fight began on 28 Jan 1966 and continued for three days. Although Sigler says 121 Americans died in the fighting, the casualty database lists 57 hostile-fire deaths in Binh Dinh Province during those three days; of them, 17 were from 2nd Bn, 12th Cavalry. Eight of the 17 were from Sergeant Thomas's Bravo Company 2/12:

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