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PATRICK WILLIAM MURPHY
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 23, 1947 – February 15, 1968
Service recordPatrick William Murphy, of Southfield, Michigan, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 50
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- October 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Southfield, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 39E, Line 50
- CLAYTON LIGGINSStaff Sergeant · February 15, 1968
- THOMAS JOSEPH MARGLECaptain · February 15, 1968
- CHARLES FRANCIS MCGRATHLance Corporal · February 15, 1968
- DOMENICO MORGERA JRPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
From Southfield
- DON GAYNOR BOYDLance Corporal · February 28, 1967
- ROBERT DENNIS MILLAN JRPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES FRANCISSergeant · September 30, 1967
- DENNIS GREENWALDPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- JEFFREY WILLIS POHJOLACorporal · August 25, 1968
- GARY RICHARD BERGPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
- GLENN ROSS URQUHART JRLance Corporal · February 5, 1969
- LEWIS MICHAEL FORMANPrivate First Class · February 24, 1969
- EVERETT ROBERT MATARAZZOPrivate First Class · June 10, 1969
- WILLIAM JOSEPH FRANCISPrivate First Class · March 9, 1970
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.