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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Elden Jones.

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PAUL ELDEN JONES

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 15, 1948 – February 12, 1970

Service record

Paul Elden Jones, of Kinsale, Virginia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 12, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 13W · Line 1

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
December 15, 1948
Home of record
Kinsale, Virginia (Westmoreland County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 12, 1970
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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34 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1970; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 13W, Line 1

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.