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PATRICK ALLEN CONNELLY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 26, 1949 – June 19, 1968
Service recordPatrick Allen Connelly, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 32
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- January 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Green Bay, Wisconsin (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 19, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 32
- WILLIAM A BLEWITT JRPrivate · June 19, 1968
- PAUL ARTHUR BOGUSKISpecialist Four · June 19, 1968
- JOHN STEPHEN BROWNPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- CHARLES MICHAEL COTTONChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 19, 1968
From Green Bay
- JAMES DAVID LAHAYECommander · May 8, 1965
- RICHARD CHARLES MCKEE JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- DANIEL RAYMOND SMEESTERCorporal · July 1, 1967
- RICHARD THOMAS JACKSONSergeant · January 6, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD LOYHospitalman · January 11, 1968
- JOSEPH LLOYD BEGOTKASergeant · January 27, 1968
- LAWRENCE NORBART STANGELConstructionman · January 31, 1968
- GEARWIN PHILLIP TOUSEYPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JOSEPH DEAN SEIBERTSergeant · March 6, 1968
- FRANK VINCENT HERRERASergeant · April 4, 1968
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.