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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Deihl Wolf.

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PAUL DEIHL WOLF

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 18, 1941 – May 9, 1968

Service record

Paul Deihl Wolf, of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 58E · Line 3

Position of Panel 58E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
May 18, 1941
Home of record
Lansdale, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 9, 1968
Age
26
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 58E, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Lansdale

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.