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PAUL DAVID EKART
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
November 1, 1946 – January 26, 1968
Service recordPaul David Ekart, of Ottumwa, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 38
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- November 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Ottumwa, Iowa (Wapello County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 38
- DWIGHT THOMAS DENNINGPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- MICHAEL EDWARD DUNNLieutenant Commander · January 26, 1968
- ROBERT DON FAIRESSpecialist Four · January 26, 1968
- GARY NEIL FOSTERPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
From Ottumwa
- KENNETH A MALLONEESpecialist Five · October 3, 1966
- DAVID LEROY PARISHSpecialist Four · March 15, 1967
- TERRY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · December 20, 1967
- JOHN FRANCIS LINKSergeant · March 30, 1968
- LARRY DEAN BLEYTHINGSpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- TERRY VERNON MILLERCorporal · May 29, 1969
- MICHAEL HUGH BEAVERSpecialist Four · December 29, 1969
- RUSSELL CRAIG SCULLYPrivate First Class · September 1, 1970
- DUANE ALLAN COTTRELLSpecialist Four · September 23, 1971
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.