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PATRICK T SASSE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 13, 1948 – December 6, 1967
Service recordPatrick T Sasse, of Mobridge, South Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1967, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 53
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Mobridge, South Dakota (Walworth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; three of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 53
- JAMES DOIL RADERCorporal · December 6, 1967
- JOSEPH LEE REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES ROMANSHEKCorporal · December 6, 1967
- FREDERICK WRIGHT SANDERSLance Corporal · December 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH JOHN FORETPrivate First Class · Panel 31E, Line 46
- ERIC WAYNE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 31E, Line 48
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.