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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Richard Dartt.

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PAUL RICHARD DARTT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 20, 1946 – October 24, 1968

Service record

Paul Richard Dartt, of Brattleboro, Vermont, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 27

Position of Panel 40W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 20, 1946
Home of record
Brattleboro, Vermont (Windham County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 24, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 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 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 27

Same unit, same day

From Brattleboro

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.