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PATRICK SPIKER JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 6, 1930 – July 15, 1965
Service recordPatrick Spiker JR, of Yakima, Washington, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 6, 1930
- Home of record
- Yakima, Washington (Yakima County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 15, 1965
- Age
- 34
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1965. In July 1965, 103 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 38
- JAMES MELVEN PENNYPrivate First Class · July 15, 1965
- RICHARD LANSING ZICHEKLance Corporal · July 15, 1965
- DARYL LAVERNE KEENPetty Officer Third Class · July 16, 1965
- DANIEL JOSEPH BENNETTPetty Officer Third Class · July 17, 1965
Same unit, same day
- RIGOBERTO C CHACONSergeant · Panel 2E, Line 37
From Yakima
- LARRY BYRON MCCLANAHANPrivate First Class · February 10, 1965
- DAVID ROSS FAULCONERPrivate First Class · September 12, 1966
- WALTER DARYLE LEACHSpecialist Four · December 1, 1966
- RODNEY RICHARD WEEDSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- LLOYD PALMER STEARNSSergeant · April 8, 1967
- JAMES LOUIS ZYPHSpecialist Four · February 24, 1968
- RICHARD SAMUEL GINDERPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- VERNON LEE LEUNINGWarrant Officer 1 · March 4, 1968
- GARY LEWIS COLOMBOCorporal · March 6, 1968
- ROBERT DONALD MARCOLance Corporal · April 10, 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.