Philip Reginal Mattracion
was a hospital corpsman 2nd class, pay grade E5
in the regular US Navy. He was 23 years old and
married when he died. He was born on January 13, 1944.
He died April 5, 1967 of wounds from hostile small arms fire in
Thua Thien, South Vietnam on April 5, 1967.  His body
was recovered. He was Roman Catholic. His name is on the Maya Lin wall Panel 17E Line 106.

"Phil and I went to Beacon High School together. After I came home from overseas, the Marine Corps asked me if I would be part of an honor guard for a Navy soldier that had gotten killed in Vietnam. I thus represented the Marine Corps and honored my friend Phil Matrician. It truly was a sad day to bury a fellow classmate and friend", Paul W. Annetts, Fishkill NY.