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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Dean Urquhart.

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PAUL DEAN URQUHART

Captain · U.S. Army

September 30, 1944 – May 28, 1971

Service record

Paul Dean Urquhart, of Mcmurray, Pennsylvania, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 3W · Line 57

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
September 30, 1944
Home of record
Mcmurray, Pennsylvania (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1971
Age
26
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
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

Five names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1971; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

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.

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Also on Panel 3W, Line 57

Same unit, same day

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.