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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
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 Douglas Tice.

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PAUL DOUGLAS TICE

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

April 28, 1946 – September 24, 1966

Service record

Paul Douglas Tice, of Buffalo, New York, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 24, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 18

Position of Panel 11E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
F CO 2 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV
Born
April 28, 1946
Home of record
Buffalo, New York (Erie County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 24, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1966; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “F CO 2 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 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.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 18

From Buffalo

All 151 names from Buffalo →

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.