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JEARL RAY PATTEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 29, 1947 – April 7, 1968
Service recordJearl Ray Patten, of Lebanon, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 46
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Missouri (Laclede County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 46
- ROBERT CHARLES PEDAFirst Lieutenant · April 7, 1968
- JOHN FRANKLIN QUATTLEBAUMPrivate · April 7, 1968
- MICHAEL LEE RANSBOTTOMCorporal · April 7, 1968
- JOSEPH MAURICE REESPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
From Lebanon
- DONNIE LEN DARROWMajor · November 30, 1967
- JAMES RILEY LEDBETTERHospitalman · March 12, 1968
- HOWARD EUGENE BROWN JRSeaman · January 9, 1970
- GENE RANDOLF KENNEDYSpecialist Four · March 19, 1971
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.