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PATRICK LYNN BASILE
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 29, 1949 – July 11, 1969
Service recordPatrick Lynn Basile, of Fontana, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 11, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 98
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Fontana, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 98
- ROBERT BATES JRPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
- NORMAN HUBERT BLOOMFIELDSergeant · July 11, 1969
- MARK LEROY BRUNERPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
- WILLIAM ROBERT BURT JRSpecialist Five · July 11, 1969
From Fontana
- RICHARD ALLEN NOELKEPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- DOMINIC ANTHONY CORONAPrivate First Class · July 29, 1966
- GARY RICHARD DANSERSpecialist Four · July 20, 1967
- JOSEPH PENN MAREKPrivate First Class · November 15, 1967
- JOHN ARLINGTON RODGERSSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- RONALD ELLIS WILTSEFirst Lieutenant · May 13, 1968
- RICHARD ARTHUR LANESpecialist Five · June 16, 1968
- GARY ELLIS HOADLEYSergeant · August 3, 1968
- CALVIN LEWISCorporal · January 6, 1969
- PARIS WILLIAM MONTANEZPrivate First Class · January 27, 1969
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.