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TERRY ALLEN PATTERSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 9, 1944 – March 2, 1967
Service recordTerry Allen Patterson, of Waukegan, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 4
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 9, 1944
- Home of record
- Waukegan, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 4
- JOHN PATRICK ODONNELLPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- WILLIAM SHORTTLance Corporal · March 2, 1967
- GEORGE MICHAEL SLOANPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- HAROLD KENNETH SOUTHWICKCorporal · March 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE MICHAEL SLOANPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 4
- RICHARD HENRY TISSIERPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 5
From Waukegan
- WALTER WILLIAM BROWNSpecialist Five · November 5, 1965
- DAVID E BURKESPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- PATRICK JAMES HARRISPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- DANIEL MCCARTHY MANNLieutenant (junior grade) · April 7, 1967
- EDWARD STEVEN SACCOSpecialist Four · July 15, 1967
- PETER JOSEPH CANELAKESPrivate First Class · August 31, 1967
- ERHARDT WILLIAM MATHIESENSergeant · November 22, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · April 18, 1968
- RICHARD JOHN TURBITT JRSpecialist Four · April 20, 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.