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PATRICK OREILLY ORR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 23, 1948 – April 29, 1971
Service recordPatrick Oreilly Orr, of Ft Thomas, Kentucky, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 18
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- April 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Ft Thomas, Kentucky (Campbell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1971
- Age
- 23
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1971. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 18
- WILLIAM GEORGE HASSELMANChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 29, 1971
- ROBERT LESTER LONGWarrant Officer 1 · April 29, 1971
- ALBERT MCCOY JRStaff Sergeant · April 29, 1971
- DENNIS EDWARD MORGANCaptain · April 29, 1971
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE EVANSChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 3W, Line 17
- WILLIAM GEORGE HASSELMANChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 3W, Line 18
- ROBERT LESTER LONGWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 3W, Line 18
From Ft Thomas
- ALBERT FRANCIS SAYER JRCaptain · September 8, 1967
- DAVID ALLEN JONESCorporal · May 1, 1968
- JOSEPH SHAW ROSSCaptain · August 1, 1968
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.