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DUDLEY RANDOLPH PATTY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 20, 1943 – March 25, 1967
Service recordDudley Randolph Patty, of Montgomery, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 47
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 20, 1943
- Home of record
- Montgomery, Alabama (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 47
- CHESTER RAYMOND PAVEYGunnery Sergeant · March 25, 1967
- DONALD RAY SANDERSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- MICHAEL WILLIAM TWIGGSpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
- WARREN DEMAREST VOUGHT JRCorporal · March 25, 1967
From Montgomery
- FRANK LEONARD MILLER IIICaptain · September 30, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS MOOREPrivate First Class · November 15, 1965
- JAMES WALTER DENNIS JRLance Corporal · March 18, 1966
- GEORGE CANADA JRStaff Sergeant · May 15, 1966
- JIMMIE L SCOTTSpecialist Five · June 1, 1966
- WILLIAM HUGH GARDNER JRSpecialist Four · August 2, 1966
- JAMES ALLEN SKINNERPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- CHARLES TYRONE DAYLance Corporal · September 3, 1966
- THOMAS E DORANSpecialist Four · September 3, 1966
- WILLIAM J SEAWRIGHT JRSpecialist Four · November 15, 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.