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PATRICK IRVIN NELMS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 8, 1948 – November 4, 1968
Service recordPatrick Irvin Nelms, of Oakville, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Oakville, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 18
- GREGORY LEE PHILLIPSSpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
- ARTHUR JAMES ROSS JRSpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
- RICHARD ALLEN SETTERSpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
- OTIS RAYMOND SIMPSONSpecialist Five · November 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS HUGH BAKERMajor · Panel 39W, Line 15
- JOHN JAUTRIS ZIMULISSergeant First Class · Panel 39W, Line 20
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.