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PAUL DAVID BERTHIAUME
Captain · U.S. Army
May 24, 1937 – December 23, 1965
Service recordPaul David Berthiaume, of Spencer, Massachusetts, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 35
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tank Unit Commander (1203)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 24, 1937
- Home of record
- Spencer, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1965
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 35
- JOHN DOUGLAS PRUDHOMMELieutenant · December 22, 1965
- JOHN FREDERICK ASHMANLance Corporal · December 23, 1965
- JAMES A GRUEZKEWarrant Officer 1 · December 23, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
From Spencer
- KENNETH ROGER BENJAMINSpecialist Four · December 8, 1967
- DAVID ANTHONY BLOUGHPrivate First Class · December 29, 1967
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.