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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Anthony Guida.

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PAUL ANTHONY GUIDA

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 17, 1951 – January 10, 1973

Service record

Paul Anthony Guida, of Sharon, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1973, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1W · Line 111

Position of Panel 1W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
October 17, 1951
Home of record
Sharon, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 10, 1973
Age
21
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1973; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In January 1973, 29 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1W, Line 111

From Sharon

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.