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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Patrick Thomas Demarco.

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PATRICK THOMAS DEMARCO

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 2, 1948 – January 13, 1969

Service record

Patrick Thomas Demarco, of Darby, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 13, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35W · Line 81

Position of Panel 35W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
March 2, 1948
Home of record
Darby, Pennsylvania (Delaware County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 13, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35W, Line 81

Same unit, same day

From Darby

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.