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PAUL DONALD SPILLANE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 23, 1934 – July 26, 1968
Service recordPaul Donald Spillane, of Leicester, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 26, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 16
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- November 23, 1934
- Home of record
- Leicester, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 26, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 50W, Line 16
- JACK STEPHEN SMITHLance Corporal · July 26, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES TELLISSergeant First Class · July 26, 1968
- FERNANDO MARCELO VALDEZPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- JOHN WAYNE ACOSTASpecialist Four · July 27, 1968
From Leicester
- RICHARD WARREN HUNTOONLance Corporal · May 12, 1966
- PATRICK MICHAEL LORDITCHPrivate First Class · August 6, 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.