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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Narcisse.

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PAUL NARCISSE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 28, 1945 – October 11, 1968

Service record

Paul Narcisse, of Pointe A La Hache, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41W · Line 49

Position of Panel 41W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
5 INF DIV MECH
Born
April 28, 1945
Home of record
Pointe A La Hache, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
October 11, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date October 11, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 41W, Line 49

Same unit, same day

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.