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WO1 Gordon Patterson served with the Marine Corps during the Korean War from 1950-1953, enlisting on 13 July 1950. He served in four campaigns. He was wounded in combat during this time. He left the Corps in 1954.
He then worked as a fireman in Texas.
In 1961, he enlisted in the Army, becoming a mechanic. He served a tour of duty in Korea. Then to Fort Hood, followed by a tour in Okinawa.
Following this, he became a Warrant Officer, receiving his training at Fort Eustis, Virginia as an electrician and diesel engineer.
In Vietnam, WO1 Patterson was assigned as chief engineer for motor repair of a boat fleet near Saigon. On 16 November 1968, he was performing shore duty working on a water craft that was buoyed on the Saigon River near Bien Hoa. The craft came under attack from NVA and VC forces. He and another soldier, SP4 Russell A. Hodge, perished from gunshot wounds.
WO1 Gordon Patterson was interred in Sunset Memorial Garden’s Cemetery in Odessa, Texas.
