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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Truville Hallman.

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PAUL TRUVILLE HALLMAN

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

June 22, 1927 – February 4, 1968

Service record

Paul Truville Hallman, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 4, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37E · Line 22

Position of Panel 37E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Builder (BU)
Unit (as recorded)
NMCB 128 3 NC BDE
Born
June 22, 1927
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 4, 1968
Age
40
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in Quảng Nam 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 37E, Line 22

From Atlanta

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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.