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PAUL WARREN PAINE
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
September 18, 1935 – May 7, 1968
Service recordPaul Warren Paine, of Rochester, Minnesota, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 7, 1968, in North Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- September 18, 1935
- Home of record
- Rochester, Minnesota (Olmsted County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 7, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 7, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 29
- ROBERT FRANK NOLANSergeant · May 7, 1968
- KENNETH BENEDICT ORSZULAKPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
- PEDRO MORENO ORTIZPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
- DAVID RAY OWENSPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
From Rochester
- DOUGLAS DEWEY WALLINPrivate First Class · August 26, 1967
- DAVID W MILDESecond Lieutenant · December 21, 1967
- PAUL JAMES ALLENCorporal · April 11, 1968
- BYRL WILLIAM GAERTNERLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- DONNIE ADELBERT GEERDESLance Corporal · June 13, 1968
- LOUIS JAMES SKANSONPrivate First Class · July 4, 1968
- LARRY WILLIAM WATSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- DAVID ALLAN WEBERSergeant · March 25, 1969
- RONNIE GENE KLOMSTADSeaman · May 24, 1969
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.