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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Ames Conroy JR.

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PAUL AMES CONROY JR

Master Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 30, 1923 – March 23, 1967

Service record

Paul Ames Conroy JR, of Ogdensburg, New York, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 27

Position of Panel 17E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Master Sergeant (MSG)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
July 30, 1923
Home of record
Ogdensburg, New York (St Lawrence County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 23, 1967
Age
43
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 27

From Ogdensburg

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.