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PATRICK JOSEPH TREMBLAY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 19, 1949 – March 17, 1968
Service recordPatrick Joseph Tremblay, of Conesus, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 17, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 16
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Conesus, New York (Livingston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 17, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 45E, Line 16
- WENDELL GENE TAYLORSpecialist Four · March 17, 1968
- BOBBY LYNN WEATHERSLance Corporal · March 17, 1968
- JAMES WITTPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- DAVID LYNN BROWNLance Corporal · March 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES GUY BLACKSHEARSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 8
- DANIEL LEE BURRSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 8
- RICHARD JAMES GROOMSSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 11
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.