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DONNIE LEE PATRICK
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
September 10, 1937 – May 15, 1968
Service recordDonnie Lee Patrick, of Galloway, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 15, 1968, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61E · Line 1
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Commissaryman (CS)
- Born
- September 10, 1937
- Home of record
- Galloway, Ohio (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 61E, Line 1
- ANIBAL ORTEGA JRSergeant · May 15, 1968
- MIGUEL PAGANPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- DENNIS IRWIN PEDERSENSpecialist Four · May 15, 1968
- JOSEPH HENRY PICARELLISergeant · May 15, 1968
From Galloway
- ROBERT DARRELL DEBOARDPrivate First Class · February 8, 1969
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.