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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 Harold Abraham.

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PAUL HAROLD ABRAHAM

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 24, 1930 – April 2, 1969

Service record

Paul Harold Abraham, of Irving, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 106

Position of Panel 28W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
May 24, 1930
Home of record
Irving, Texas (Dallas County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 2, 1969
Age
38
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1969; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 106

Same unit, same day

From Irving

All 21 names from Irving →

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.