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PAUL FRANCIS NEWMAN JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 24, 1946 – April 6, 1968

Service record

Paul Francis Newman JR, of Pinehurst, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 48E · Line 25

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Service

Branch: U.S. Army
Rank: Specialist Four (SP4)
Service: Regular
Occupation: Infantryman (11B)
Born: March 24, 1946
Home of record: Pinehurst, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death: April 6, 1968
Age: 22
Country: South Vietnam
Casualty type: Hostile
Category: Died of Wounds
Circumstance: Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 48E, Line 25

MARK OWEN CHARETTESergeant · April 6, 1968
ROBERT EDWARD COOKSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
PAUL PATRICK DAVISPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
SAMUEL LUTHER DAVISStaff Sergeant · April 6, 1968
JACK DENNIS DOWNSPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968

From Pinehurst

WILLIAM CEACON BLADES IIILance Corporal · May 8, 1967

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.