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PAUL ROBERT ANZELONE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 12, 1947 – February 9, 1968
Service recordPaul Robert Anzelone, of College Park, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 43
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 12, 1947
- Home of record
- College Park, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968; three of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Phong Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 43
- RAY ERNEST ALWINELance Corporal · February 9, 1968
- JAMES RICHMOND ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · February 9, 1968
- ROY L ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · February 9, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD ANDERSONPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANKLIN S BRADLEY JRCaptain · Panel 38E, Line 45
- RICKY LEE HULLWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 38E, Line 52
- MICHAEL JOSEPH LYNCHSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 55
From College Park
- WESLEY RICE MOORE JRFirst Lieutenant · February 1, 1968
- JAMES EGBERT DICKERSONPrivate First Class · April 17, 1968
- LIONEL TIMOTHY CLOVERSergeant · May 22, 1968
- PAUL ANTHONY CUMBERLANDCorporal · February 27, 1969
- WAYNE ALAN STEVENSPrivate First Class · May 1, 1969
- JOSEPH F MCDERMOTT IIISpecialist Four · July 8, 1970
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.