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PAUL EVANS MAYER
Sergeant Major · U.S. Marine Corps
March 28, 1925 – March 28, 1968
Service recordPaul Evans Mayer, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant Major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 57
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
- Sergeant Major (SGTMAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Avionics Maintenance Chief (6391)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 MAF
- Born
- March 28, 1925
- Home of record
- North Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 43
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 MAF”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 46E, Line 57
- DOUGLAS FRANKLIN LOUDENBACKPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- HENRY ELMER MACCANNColonel · March 28, 1968
- FREDERICK DONALD MCCARTYSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
- JIMMIE LEFON MCRAEPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
From North Little Rock
- AQUILA BAKERPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- OTIS CECIL JONES JRSpecialist Four · January 27, 1967
- RONALD ALAN PATTISONSergeant · September 6, 1967
- GERALD WILLIAM ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- COY EDWARD STROBLECorporal · June 13, 1968
- MICHAEL STEWART ELLEDGEFirst Lieutenant · July 24, 1968
- JOHN WAYNE ACOSTASpecialist Four · July 27, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE DAVISPrivate First Class · September 2, 1968
- MARVIN COOK JRCaptain · January 26, 1969
- HAROLD EDWARD CROWDERPrivate First Class · March 3, 1969
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.