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PAUL RAY MCFADDEN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 18, 1946 – March 29, 1968
Service recordPaul Ray McFadden, of Anselmo, Nebraska, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 3
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- November 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Anselmo, Nebraska (Custer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 3
- DONALD B MCCOIGWarrant Officer 1 · March 29, 1968
- JAMES WAYNE MULTHAUPTCorporal · March 29, 1968
- JON MICHAEL MURPHYSergeant · March 29, 1968
- MELVIN DEW NEWTONSpecialist Four · March 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS G CARLISLE IIWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 46E, Line 61
- LARRY ALBERT IANNETTASpecialist Five · Panel 47E, Line 1
- JOSEPH LASZLOWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 47E, Line 2
- JON MICHAEL MURPHYSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 3
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.