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TIMOTHY COLEMAN PATTERSON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 28, 1944 – April 22, 1967
Service recordTimothy Coleman Patterson, of Lumberton, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 71
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Lumberton, North Carolina (Robeson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 71
- RAUL BAUTISTA PEREZPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- WESLEY IRWIN PIZERPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- WILLIAM AMBROSE PROCTORSpecialist Four · April 22, 1967
- GORDON ARTHUR ROUSE JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KIT BLACKWELDERPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 67
From Lumberton
- DAVID THOMPSONSergeant First Class · January 27, 1964
- FRANKLIN EUGENE HOSLERSergeant · April 4, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MCRAESpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- HARRY L ALWAYFirst Lieutenant · July 13, 1967
- CECIL A MEARESSergeant First Class · September 23, 1967
- GLENN DIRK KERNSPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- HUGHIE OXENDINEStaff Sergeant · December 25, 1967
- LEE ANDREW BOWDENSergeant · April 6, 1968
- DONALD FRANK MCKENZIEStaff Sergeant · December 10, 1968
- HARRY HUTCHISON GIBSONFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1969
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.