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MARSHALL IRVIN PAULEY
Chief Master Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
October 17, 1941 – March 13, 1966
Service recordMarshall Irvin Pauley, of Milton, West Virginia, served as a Chief Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on March 13, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 5
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Chief Master Sergeant (CMSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Weapons Maintenance Superintendent (46290)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 ACS
- Born
- October 17, 1941
- Home of record
- Milton, West Virginia (Cabell County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 13, 1966
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1966; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “4 ACS”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 6E, Line 5
- GENE EDMOND DAVISChief Master Sergeant · March 13, 1966
- DAVID JULIAN GIERPrivate First Class · March 13, 1966
- EDWARD DAVIS PIERCECaptain · March 13, 1966
- ROBERT ANDREW STREETSpecialist Four · March 13, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DEAN ARNOLD DUVALLChief Master Sergeant · Panel 6E, Line 3
- HOWARD WILLIAM HENNINGERColonel · Panel 6E, Line 3
- EDWIN EVERTON MORGANChief Master Sergeant · Panel 6E, Line 4
- GERALD EVERETT OLSONMajor · Panel 6E, Line 4
- ROBERT EDWARD PASEKOFFLieutenant Colonel · Panel 6E, Line 4
- GENE EDMOND DAVISChief Master Sergeant · Panel 6E, Line 5
From Milton
- LLOYD ALLEN VANNATTERCorporal · December 10, 1965
- WILLIAM THOMAS KAUFFERSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- BILLY JOE VICKERSPrivate First Class · April 8, 1968
- ARTHUR WILSON JRSpecialist Five · March 24, 1971
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.