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PAUL RAY GRINE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 20, 1947 – August 27, 1968
Service recordPaul Ray Grine, of Stoystown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 27, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 41
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Stoystown, Pennsylvania (Somerset County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date August 27, 1968; four of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 41
- DENNIS PATRICK FRIEDHOFFPrivate First Class · August 27, 1968
- DAVID URBAN FRITZCorporal · August 27, 1968
- ALLEN AVERY GRIFFINSpecialist Four · August 27, 1968
- JAMES RONALD HARRISSergeant · August 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR OLOGUE SOTOSergeant · Panel 46W, Line 45
From Stoystown
- ROBERT LEE HAINESCorporal · July 2, 1967
- CARL LYNN WALKERCorporal · July 7, 1969
- GORDON LEE KIMMELSpecialist Four · September 2, 1971
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.