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PAUL ARNOLD YOUNGMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 11, 1948 – May 2, 1968
Service recordPaul Arnold Youngman, of Siletz, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 22
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- May 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Siletz, Oregon (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 22
- LEROY NORRIS WRIGHTSergeant First Class · May 2, 1968
- PAUL LEONARD YOSTSergeant · May 2, 1968
- OLIVER ANDERSONSergeant First Class · May 3, 1968
- BILLY WAYNE BRIDGEMANSergeant · May 3, 1968
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.