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PAUL LEE PRICE
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
July 20, 1948 – September 23, 1967
Service recordPaul Lee Price, of Owensboro, Kentucky, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 23, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- July 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Owensboro, Kentucky (Daviess County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 23, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 3
- LARRY JAMES HIGHPrivate First Class · September 23, 1967
- LASZLO HOLOVITSStaff Sergeant · September 23, 1967
- ARNOLD GARY KRAVITZAirman Second Class · September 23, 1967
- CECIL A MEARESSergeant First Class · September 23, 1967
- ROBERT ERNEST SIPESpecialist Five · September 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CLAUDE ALLEN SMITHLance Corporal · Panel 27E, Line 4
From Owensboro
- CHARLES ERVIN SHELTONColonel · April 29, 1965
- RANDELL GENE TRAILLance Corporal · October 26, 1965
- RAYMOND LEE FORDWarrant Officer 1 · March 29, 1966
- CHARLES RATES LEWISSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- CHARLES RAYMOND LEONARDSpecialist Four · July 22, 1967
- MANFORD DALVIS STEWARTPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- JOSEPH ANTHONY COOMESPetty Officer Third Class · September 21, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS COONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- ROBERT WESLEY WATTSWarrant Officer 1 · November 22, 1967
- KENNETH R SHOEMAKER JRFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
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.