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PATRICK JACKSON SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 17, 1946 – December 15, 1967
Service recordPatrick Jackson Smith, of Roy, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 15, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 5
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Roy, Utah (Weber County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 15, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 5
- JOHN H LATTIN JRFirst Lieutenant · December 15, 1967
- JOHN DONALD ROCHESergeant First Class · December 15, 1967
- MICHAEL DENNIS SANDERCorporal · December 15, 1967
- ROBERT MITCHELL SAWAYACorporal · December 15, 1967
From Roy
- FRED JOHN PINSONAULTSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES PENNINGTONCorporal · June 9, 1968
- DOUGLAS GREGORY HOWESCorporal · March 17, 1970
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.