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PATRICK SKEET
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 1, 1943 – February 25, 1968
Service recordPatrick Skeet, of Gallup, New Mexico, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- January 1, 1943
- Home of record
- Gallup, New Mexico (Mckinley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; nine of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 29
- MICHAEL DAVID SHEAHANPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- STEPHEN ANDREW SHELLEYPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- ROBERT LOUIS SIMMONSSergeant · February 25, 1968
- EDWARD SINGLETON JRSpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NOBLE COLLINS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 19
- ALBERT WARDSergeant · Panel 41E, Line 32
From Gallup
- JOSEPH DANIEL HURTASergeant · March 22, 1967
- STAN LEROY CORFIELDStaff Sergeant · May 1, 1967
- EDWARD A CABRERACorporal · June 5, 1967
- WOODROW DENNIS ADLERSpecialist Four · November 26, 1967
- VAN ETSITTYCorporal · June 1, 1968
- JERRY DELBERT ABEYTACorporal · June 22, 1968
- HARRY MICHAEL MATHERSpecialist Four · July 23, 1968
- WAYNE ARTAMUS TICESpecialist Five · November 19, 1968
- STEVEN MIKEPrivate First Class · January 6, 1971
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.