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PATRICK OSBORNE FORD
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
May 2, 1942 – June 21, 1968
Service recordPatrick Osborne Ford, of San Francisco, California, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 21, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- May 2, 1942
- Home of record
- San Francisco, California (San Francisco County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 13
- KENNETH CLAIR FLEMING JRCorporal · June 21, 1968
- WILLIAM HAROLD GLASPIESergeant · June 21, 1968
- JOHNNIE JACKSONPrivate First Class · June 21, 1968
- RUDOLPH JENNINGSPrivate First Class · June 21, 1968
From San Francisco
- BRUCE CHARLES FARRELLLieutenant · October 8, 1963
- JOHN F SANTOS JRCaptain · April 28, 1964
- HARRY PAUL GAMBLEPrivate First Class · June 7, 1965
- LUDWIG PETER KOHLERPrivate First Class · July 26, 1965
- WILLIAM GEORGE WHEATLEYPrivate First Class · October 13, 1965
- EVERETT WILLIAM GOIASSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- JOHN ARTHUR NATHANSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- RONALD DENNIS FERGUSONSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- JOSE WILFREDO SUAREZSpecialist Five · November 20, 1965
- LAAVALE FUATAU TAGATALance Corporal · December 3, 1965
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.