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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Everett Schieve.

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PAUL EVERETT SCHIEVE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 5, 1947 – May 30, 1968

Service record

Paul Everett Schieve, of Lansing, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 30, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 62W · Line 1

Position of Panel 62W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
October 5, 1947
Home of record
Lansing, Michigan (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 30, 1968
Age
20
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

44 names on the Wall carry the date May 30, 1968; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 62W, Line 1

Same unit, same day

From Lansing

All 44 names from Lansing →

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.