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DANNY LEON PATRICK
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 11, 1950 – April 9, 1969
Service recordDanny Leon Patrick, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 9, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 46
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 11, 1950
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 46
- DAN STEVEN LONGPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- WILLIAM LUTHER OVERSTREETPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- ROBERT ANDREW PORTEPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- MICHAEL J VERHAEGHESpecialist Four · April 9, 1969
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.