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PAUL LIONEL DURAND
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 22, 1948 – March 23, 1967
Service recordPaul Lionel Durand, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 23, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 28
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Woonsocket, Rhode Island (Providence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 28
- KEVIN MELBOURNE DAILEYSpecialist Four · March 23, 1967
- RICHARD FRANCIS DUNHAMCorporal · March 23, 1967
- JOHN ANDREW EWARTLance Corporal · March 23, 1967
- JOHN LUTHER FULLER JRSecond Lieutenant · March 23, 1967
From Woonsocket
- LEWIS METCALFE WALLING JRSecond Lieutenant · February 11, 1962
- ANTHONY SILBASpecialist Five · March 28, 1966
- RONALD JOSEPH BRISSETTEPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- RENE RAYMOND COUTUCorporal · August 27, 1967
- RICHARD EDWARD DUCHARMELance Corporal · October 2, 1967
- DENNIS EDWARD BURKESecond Lieutenant · February 6, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM LAUZONSpecialist Four · February 28, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL RAYStaff Sergeant · March 18, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN FRISKSergeant · March 27, 1968
- CRAIG BARKER HOLTCorporal · May 26, 1968
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.