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JAMES GORDON PATTERSON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 3, 1941 – March 16, 1967
Service recordJames Gordon Patterson, of Milton, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 96
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 155 AVN CO 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 3, 1941
- Home of record
- Milton, New Jersey (Morris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1967; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “155 AVN CO 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 96
- DANIEL FLORES PEREZ JRSpecialist Four · March 16, 1967
- JAMES EARL PERRYPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- ALFRED PINOLance Corporal · March 16, 1967
- FRANK MICHEAL POKEY JRCorporal · March 16, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KEITH D GRIFFINSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 89
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.