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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Richard Smith JR.

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PAUL RICHARD SMITH JR

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

January 22, 1946 – March 6, 1967

Service record

Paul Richard Smith JR, of Pen Mar, Pennsylvania, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 6, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 16E · Line 31

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
January 22, 1946
Home of record
Pen Mar, Pennsylvania (Franklin County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Drowning

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36 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 16E, Line 31

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.