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PAUL CHESTER KING JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 17, 1949 – May 4, 1968
Service recordPaul Chester King JR, of Waltham, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1968, in Laos, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 41
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 17, 1949
- Home of record
- Waltham, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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 54E, Line 41
- DONALD JEANE SWEATStaff Sergeant · May 4, 1968
- ANTHONY WILFRED TORRESPlatoon Sergeant · May 4, 1968
- EGBERT R VAUGHANSpecialist Five · May 4, 1968
- JEFFERY ALLEN YERIONPrivate First Class · May 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH MICHAEL CRYANSpecialist Five · Panel 54E, Line 32
From Waltham
- EMIL JEROME TADEVICHCorporal · December 31, 1965
- THOMAS EDWARD ONEILL JRPrivate First Class · February 12, 1966
- THOMAS FRANCIS JACKSONPrivate First Class · December 17, 1966
- JOHN MILLER SULLIVANPrivate First Class · January 14, 1967
- JOSEPH PAUL RANDOPrivate First Class · May 5, 1967
- PAUL ANDREW DUPEREPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- LAWRENCE RICHARD DUFFYSecond Lieutenant · November 29, 1967
- REGINALD JOSEPH GAUTREAULance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- MICHAEL MURPHYLance Corporal · May 26, 1968
- KENNETH FREDERICK MOORESPrivate First Class · October 8, 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.