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In memory of SP4 Thomas Washington Lipsey III, while serving in 4th Gun section, A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, attached to the 101st Airborne Division. A battery was located on FSB Bastogne, in the Thua Thien Province in the Republic of South Vietnam, approximately 18 miles southwest of Camp Eagle/Phu Bai in I Corp.

On the morning of Feb. 6th 1972, while on a fire mission in support of the 196th Infantry Brigade in the Thua Thien Province, as the fire mission was proceeding, the next round was fired from the 8" self-propelled M110 Howitzer, the barrel (tube) split in half and drove the breech (weighing several tons) backwards into Tom who was standing directly behind the Gun and into the berm, the explosion also injuring three other crew members (Crew Chief, Gunner and Assistant Gunner) who were on top of the Gun platform at the time of the accidental explosion.

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Tom's name is engraved on Panel 02W - Line 104 at the Vietnam Memorial located in Washington D.C. and on the 2nd Battalion 94th Field Artillery Memorial Monument on display, at the Memorial Park in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.



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You're not forgotten Tom, Godspeed.

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A fellow Class Mate , we both graduated in 1965.
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In memory of SP4 Thomas Washington Lipsey III, while serving in 4th Gun section, A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, attached to the 101st Airborne Division. A battery was located on FSB Bastogne, in the Thua Thien Province in the Republic of South Vietnam, approximately 18 miles southwest of Camp Eagle/Phu Bai in I Corp.

On the morning of Feb. 6th 1972, while on a fire mission in support of the 196th Infantry Brigade in the Thua Thien Province, as the fire mission was proceeding, the next round was fired from the 8" self-propelled M110 Howitzer, the barrel (tube) split in half and drove the breech (weighing several tons) backwards into Tom who was standing directly behind the Gun and into the berm, the explosion also injuring three other crew members (Crew Chief, Gunner and Assistant Gunner) who were on top of the Gun platform at the time of the accidental explosion.

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Tom's name is engraved on Panel 02W - Line 104 at the Vietnam Memorial located in Washington D.C. and on the 2nd Battalion 94th Field Artillery Memorial Monument on display, at the Memorial Park in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.



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You're not forgotten Tom, Godspeed.

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In memory of SP4 Thomas Washington Lipsey III, while serving in 4th Gun section, A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, attached to the 101st Airborne Division. A battery was located on FSB Bastogne, in the Thua Thien Province in the Republic of South Vietnam, approximately 18 miles southwest of Camp Eagle/Phu Bai in I Corp.

On the morning of Feb. 6th 1972, while on a fire mission in support of the 196th Infantry Brigade in the Thua Thien Province, as the fire mission was proceeding, the next round was fired from the 8" self-propelled M110 Howitzer, the barrel (tube) split in half and drove the breech (weighing several tons) backwards into Tom who was standing directly behind the Gun and into the berm, the explosion also injuring three other crew members (Crew Chief, Gunner and Assistant Gunner) who were on top of the Gun platform at the time of the accidental explosion.

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Tom's name is engraved on Panel 02W - Line 104 at the Vietnam Memorial located in Washington D.C. and on the 2nd Battalion 94th Field Artillery Memorial Monument on display, at the Memorial Park in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.



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You're not forgotten Tom, Godspeed.

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May God have mercy on his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed.
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In memory of my Great Uncle Leon. PFC 16 INF 1 DIV June 6, 1944


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What have we learned, Charlie Brown?

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.


We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.


Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Currently at the Flags for the Fallen memorial weekend at the Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler, GA. Commemorating the 26,000 8th airmen who did not return.
Lest we forget.
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