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PAUL DUFAULT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 23, 1949 – June 18, 1970
Service recordPaul Dufault, of Fall River, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 18, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 64
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Unit (as recorded)
- CACO 3 1 3 CAG COM ACT 3 MAF
- Born
- April 23, 1949
- Home of record
- Fall River, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1970; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 64
- JAMES ARVIL GREENPrivate First Class · June 18, 1970
- EUGENE RICHARD GUDISWITZLance Corporal · June 18, 1970
- EARNEST HARDIMON JRFirst Lieutenant · June 18, 1970
- ROY JAY HOLMGRENSpecialist Four · June 18, 1970
From Fall River
- DONALD CHARLES JOHANSENFirst Lieutenant · October 20, 1963
- LOUIS PHILLIP GAGNE JRSpecialist Four · September 30, 1966
- DONALD GAGNELance Corporal · November 4, 1966
- RONALD FRANCIS LAKECorporal · April 4, 1967
- RICHARD HENRY ALMEIDALance Corporal · May 3, 1967
- THOMAS ALBERT DEROSIERCaptain · July 7, 1967
- ALFRED JOHN GASPARCorporal · July 29, 1967
- ALBERT WILLARD SANTOSLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- MICHAEL JOHN MEDEIROSLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- JOSEPH VIEIRASpecialist Four · January 23, 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.