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PAUL LEO CYR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 8, 1946 – April 29, 1967
Service recordPaul Leo Cyr, of Sanford, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 115
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Sanford, Maine (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. 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 18E, Line 115
- SIDNEY DANIEL LANE JRSergeant · April 29, 1967
- DONACIANO GUTIERREZ LOPEZStaff Sergeant · April 29, 1967
- GEORGE WILLIAM MCDANIELPrivate First Class · April 29, 1967
- MICHAEL JOSEPH OKEEFECorporal · April 29, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JACK KURIPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 114
From Sanford
- RICHARD PAUL GLAUDECorporal · June 10, 1967
- JOHN HAROLD CASH JRCorporal · May 12, 1968
- DAVID HAROLD ALEXANDERSpecialist Four · December 16, 1968
- MICHAEL RICHARD PICKLESChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 27, 1970
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.