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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Patrick Darren Lovell.

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PATRICK DARREN LOVELL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 29, 1947 – June 23, 1970

Service record

Patrick Darren Lovell, of Winter Haven, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9W · Line 84

Position of Panel 9W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
November 29, 1947
Home of record
Winter Haven, Florida (Polk County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 23, 1970
Age
22
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9W, Line 84

From Winter Haven

All 15 names from Winter Haven →

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.