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PHILIP REGINAL MATTRACION
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
January 13, 1944 – April 5, 1967
Service recordPhilip Reginal Mattracion, of Beacon, New York, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 5, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 106
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- January 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Beacon, New York (Dutchess County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 106
- LEONARD IRVIN MOORELance Corporal · April 5, 1967
- THOMAS AQUINAS PARKERPetty Officer First Class · April 5, 1967
- DANIEL GARRY PATRICKPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- ROBERT HAROLD PETTITCorporal · April 5, 1967
From Beacon
- JAMES SHERWIN PITTMANPrivate First Class · October 15, 1966
- EVERETT EDWARD FOSTERLieutenant Colonel · July 20, 1967
- WILLIAM RONALD PHILLIPSSeaman · March 23, 1968
- TERRENCE EDWARD ONEILSergeant · May 23, 1968
- EMILIO RIVERAPrivate First Class · October 30, 1969
- THOMAS EDWARD DEVINECorporal · December 16, 1969
- JOHN JAY BENNETTSpecialist Five · March 2, 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.