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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ernest George Paul.

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ERNEST GEORGE PAUL

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

June 10, 1943 – May 29, 1966

Service record

Ernest George Paul, of Concord, New Hampshire, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 29, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 120 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 120

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
June 10, 1943
Home of record
Concord, New Hampshire (Merrimack County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 29, 1966
Age
22
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date May 29, 1966; 21 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 120

From Concord

All 13 names from Concord →

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.