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PATRICK JOSEPH GRIFFIN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 25, 1946 – August 18, 1968
Service recordPatrick Joseph Griffin, of Topeka, Kansas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 18, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 41
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radioman (RM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
- Born
- October 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Topeka, Kansas (Shawnee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1968; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 41
- NORMAN LEE EVERSGERDPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- ALVIS RAY FAVERTY JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 18, 1968
- GERALD MARION GISCHERPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- WILLIAM ALFRED HADSOCKPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN CORNELL BRUNTONPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 48W, Line 38
- EDWARD ROBINSO DARVILLE IIIPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 48W, Line 39
- BILLY DUANE ROYPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 48W, Line 47
From Topeka
- RALPH GEORGE REDMONDFirst Lieutenant · June 4, 1964
- ALLEN LEE HOLTChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 5, 1965
- DALE K SHAMBAUGHSecond Lieutenant · August 18, 1965
- EUGENE MILLARD JEWELLCaptain · September 4, 1965
- RICHARD NORMAN PAYNELance Corporal · July 24, 1966
- GARY REED PARSONSPrivate First Class · September 26, 1966
- WILLIAM HARLEY MEANS JRColonel · July 20, 1966
- RICHARD JOHN SASEKCaptain · July 6, 1967
- JEROME GEORGE MCGOVERNSergeant · July 12, 1967
- ROBERT GENE KIMMELLieutenant Colonel · November 14, 1967
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.