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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Patrick Alan McLeod.

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PATRICK ALAN MCLEOD

Seaman · U.S. Navy

September 10, 1942 – February 6, 1970

Service record

Patrick Alan McLeod, of Seattle, Washington, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 6, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 108

Position of Panel 14W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
September 10, 1942
Home of record
Seattle, Washington (King County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 6, 1970
Age
27
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1970; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 108

From Seattle

All 238 names from Seattle →

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.