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PATRICK JOHN HAYES
Captain · U.S. Air Force
May 23, 1943 – December 1, 1969
Service recordPatrick John Hayes, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 1, 1969, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 13
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- May 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 13
- DOLROY FRANCIESPrivate First Class · December 1, 1969
- WILLIAM CHARLES KEELERSergeant · December 1, 1969
- FREDDIE LERON LONGSpecialist Four · December 1, 1969
- DANNY GALE MARTINSpecialist Five · December 1, 1969
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 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.