Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 15-Jul-1949
Hometown: Richmond, Virginia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 31-Aug-1967
Start of tour: 13-Feb-1968
Incident date: 7-Jun-1969
Date of casualty: 7-Jun-1969
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Thomas Paul Landman was killed while crew member on a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Crew member of tank on combat operation. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC David Joe Bredenkamp
SP4 Dennis Anthony Iasello
SP4 Thomas Paul Landman
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 712 835
Place of interment: Christ Church Cemetery, Barnesville, Pennsylvania, USA
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SILVER STAR
POSTHUMOUS
SPECIALIST FOUR THOMAS PAUL LANDMAN
7 JUNE 1969
H COMPANY, 2nd SQUADRON
11TH ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT
Specialist Four Landman distinguished himself by gallantry in action while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force on 7 June 1969 while serving as a tank gunner with Company H, 2d Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in the Republic of Vietnam. On this date while conducting a reconnaissance operation southwest of An Loc, elements of the squadron came under intense small arms, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire from an estimated enemy battalion. In the initial contact Specialist Landman’s tank received a direct hit, seriously wounding the vehicle commander. Seeing that his comrade was helplessly exposed to the hostile fusillade, Specialist Landman left his driver’s hatch and moved to the wounded man’s aid. While pulling the casualty to the relative safety of the rear deck of the tank, Specialist Landman was mortally wounded by an exploding rocket-propelled grenade. Specialist Four Landman’s’ courage, devotion to duty and concern for the welfare of his fellow soldier were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.
Headquarters, II Field Force, Vietnam, General Orders No. 2623 (October 4, 1969)