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Daniel Dexter Tompkins

Private First Class, Army

Born: December 19, 1931
Hometown: Arlington County
Entered: July 11, 1951
Served In: Korea
Casualty Date: September 28, 1952
Died In: North Korea

Private First Class Tompkins served with the 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.

Before the war, he graduated from Washington-Lee High School where he was president of the Pi Beta Nu fraternity.

He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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