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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Winiford Harris.

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PAUL WINIFORD HARRIS

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

June 24, 1947 – March 13, 1967

Service record

Paul Winiford Harris, of Chillicothe, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 13, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 72

Position of Panel 16E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Electronic Systems Technician A-4/Ta-4/Oa-4 (6332)
Unit (as recorded)
HMM 163 MAG 16 1 MAW FMFPAC
Born
June 24, 1947
Home of record
Chillicothe, Ohio (Ross County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 13, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 72

From Chillicothe

All 19 names from Chillicothe →

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.