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PAUL LUCIUS WHITTHORNE JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 4, 1947 – April 13, 1968
Service recordPaul Lucius Whitthorne JR, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 49
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- January 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 49
- GRADY THACKERSergeant · April 13, 1968
- KENNETH MICHAEL WATSONCorporal · April 13, 1968
- STEPHEN JOHN WESTPHALPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- WILLIAM WAYNE WILSONPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.