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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Earl Allen Patterson.

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EARL ALLEN PATTERSON

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 21, 1930 – December 13, 1964

Service record

Earl Allen Patterson, of Tionesta, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 1E · Line 77

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
April 21, 1930
Home of record
Tionesta, Pennsylvania (Forest County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 13, 1964
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1964. In December 1964, 36 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 1E, Line 77

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.