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PAUL JOHN GREENWOOD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 27, 1946 – January 17, 1968
Service recordPaul John Greenwood, of Ithaca, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 62
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Ithaca, New York (Tompkins County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 62
- ROBERT LANSING BURRELLSpecialist Four · January 17, 1968
- DONALD LEE CHANEYSergeant First Class · January 17, 1968
- WILLIE DURANTPrivate First Class · January 17, 1968
- RONALD LEE STROOMERPrivate First Class · January 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS GARY JENSENPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 63
- CHARLES EDGAR WUERTENBERGERCaptain · Panel 34E, Line 65
From Ithaca
- JOHN ANTHONY TODIPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- DOMINGO IGNACIO AGUILARLieutenant Colonel · December 8, 1967
- CARL EMIL JANOWSKY JRSergeant · June 25, 1969
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.