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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Frederick Little.

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PAUL FREDERICK LITTLE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 8, 1947 – June 19, 1969

Service record

Paul Frederick Little, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 90

Position of Panel 22W 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)
9 INF DIV
Born
July 8, 1947
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 19, 1969
Age
21
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 90

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.