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TIMOTHY CALVIN DRAKE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 20, 1943 – May 10, 1970
Service recordTimothy Calvin Drake, of Riverdale, Maryland, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1970, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 11
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 20, 1943
- Home of record
- Riverdale, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1970
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 11
- CHARLES ALLEN COVEYSpecialist Four · May 10, 1970
- LAWRENCE NEIL DEBOERSergeant · May 10, 1970
- JAMES EDWARD DEBREWCorporal · May 10, 1970
- ALFRED JAMES GAIDISWarrant Officer 1 · May 10, 1970
From Riverdale
- JAMES GERALD MCGOVERNLance Corporal · July 29, 1967
- JAMES NORRIS DAVISPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
- DAVID ALAN REEDPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- BARRY WAYNE SMITHPrivate First Class · February 19, 1969
- HOWARD EUGENE WRIGHTPrivate First Class · February 19, 1969
- BOBBY RAY QUESENBERRYPrivate First Class · August 7, 1969
- PAUL EDWARD BRIDGETTCorporal · August 26, 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.