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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Michael Daley.

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PAUL MICHAEL DALEY

Specialist Six · U.S. Army

March 28, 1943 – August 24, 1967

Service record

Paul Michael Daley, of Boston, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 37

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Six (SP6)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Laboratory Specialist (91K)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
March 28, 1943
Home of record
Boston, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 24, 1967
Age
24
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1967; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 37

Same unit, same day

From Boston

All 52 names from Boston →

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.