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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 Hubert Dunne JR.

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PAUL HUBERT DUNNE JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

May 19, 1947 – November 19, 1969

Service record

Paul Hubert Dunne JR, of Newton, Massachusetts, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 94

Position of Panel 16W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
May 19, 1947
Home of record
Newton, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 19, 1969
Age
22
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1969; two of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 94

From Newton

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.