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HENRY EDWARD PATENAUDE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 27, 1929 – April 6, 1967
Service recordHenry Edward Patenaude, of North Cambridge, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 113
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Surveyor (82C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- October 27, 1929
- Home of record
- North Cambridge, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1967
- Age
- 37
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 113
- RICHARD ERIC NEWTONCaptain · April 6, 1967
- ALFONSO ORTIZ-LOPEZPlatoon Sergeant · April 6, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH PAULSpecialist Four · April 6, 1967
- TED BARNETT PETERSONLance Corporal · April 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD MONROE DYKESSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 110
- JOHNNY ELMER LEWISPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 112
- VINCENTE MEDINA-TORRESMaster Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 112
- ALFONSO ORTIZ-LOPEZPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 113
- GEORGE M HARRINGTONSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 114
- CONRAD EARL POOLESpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 114
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.