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PAUL JOSEPH SULLIVAN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 16, 1943 – August 9, 1968
Service recordPaul Joseph Sullivan, of Watertown, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 9, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 16, 1943
- Home of record
- Watertown, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 9, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date August 9, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 37
- LEROY NEWSON JRSpecialist Four · August 9, 1968
- JOHN PATRICK RILEYPrivate First Class · August 9, 1968
- MICHAEL EUGENE SMITHPrivate First Class · August 9, 1968
- WAYNE BENJAMIN WOLFKEILColonel · August 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STATUE MOSBY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 49W, Line 36
From Watertown
- JOHN ROBERT JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- JOHN HERBERT MORENOSergeant · March 1, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVANPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- WILLIAM KENNETH REGANSergeant · July 7, 1968
- PAUL JAMES GORMANPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
- RICHARD STEPHEN MOXLEYPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- FREDERICK E HARRINGTON JRCorporal · October 22, 1968
- JAMES PATRICK CASEYWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 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.