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PAUL STEVEN MAREK
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 21, 1943 – August 30, 1968
Service recordPaul Steven Marek, of Johnson City, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 7
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
- Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Johnson City, New York (Broome County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quang Duc Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 7
- JAMES WALTER JONESCaptain · August 30, 1968
- GARY LYNN KLINGLERSpecialist Four · August 30, 1968
- JAMES ALLEN MANGERCorporal · August 30, 1968
- TOBIAS EARL MARKUSENPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
From Johnson City
- WILLIAM CHARLES BULMANSpecialist Four · November 17, 1967
- JOHN PHILLIP VANDUSENConstructionman · September 20, 1968
- RICHARD CARL SCHMIDTStaff Sergeant · January 5, 1970
- THOMAS DRUMSpecialist Four · March 4, 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.