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PATRICK A CADWALLADER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 18, 1948 – December 20, 1969
Service recordPatrick A Cadwallader, of Astoria, Oregon, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 73
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- March 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Astoria, Oregon (Clatsop County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1969; three of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 73
- ANTHONY WAYNE FELDENPrivate First Class · December 20, 1969
- LLOYD MARTIN HAMMOND JRSpecialist Five · December 20, 1969
- DAVID WILLIAMS JONESPrivate First Class · December 20, 1969
- CARL EDWIN LONGCaptain · December 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LLOYD MARTIN HAMMOND JRSpecialist Five · Panel 15W, Line 73
From Astoria
- ALAN LYNN BARNETTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1965
- KENNETH DUANE PHARESPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- DAN THOMAS KLINDTPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- DANIEL EDWARD LLOYDCorporal · July 28, 1968
- RICHARD JEROME HOLMANWarrant Officer 1 · June 5, 1969
- RONALD STANLEY ANDERSONAirman First Class · March 23, 1972
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.