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PATRICK EDWARD DUFFY
Major · U.S. Marine Corps
March 17, 1935 – December 9, 1967
Service recordPatrick Edward Duffy, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 9, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- March 17, 1935
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 9, 1967
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 68
- JERONIMO ALVARADO-RIVERAStaff Sergeant · December 9, 1967
- CLYDE RALPH COBURNCorporal · December 9, 1967
- LLOYD ALVAN DUNCANPrivate First Class · December 9, 1967
- LIVINGSTON GLENNStaff Sergeant · December 9, 1967
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.