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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Joseph Hughes.

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PAUL JOSEPH HUGHES

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

April 14, 1948 – November 2, 1967

Service record

Paul Joseph Hughes, of Acton, Massachusetts, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 2, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 29E · Line 10

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Motor Vehicle Operator (3531)
Born
April 14, 1948
Home of record
Acton, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 2, 1967
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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27 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 29E, Line 10

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.