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Casualty Info
Home Town Boulder, CO
Last Address Philadelphia, PA
Casualty Date Feb 23, 1968
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes
Reason Vehicle Loss, Crash
Location Gia Dinh (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Mountain View Memorial Park - Boulder, Colorado
Wall/Plot Coordinates 41E 003 / Section B, Lot 306
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
LT 03, Medical Officer, US Navy, NVASUPACT (Naval Support Activity), Saigon, US Naval Force Vietnam. Served aboard the USS Tuluila (ARG-4). Killed in a non-hostile vehicle accident in Vung Tau, Vietnam when he went ashore to tend to wounded from a combat situation. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: Panel 41E, Line 003.
Graduate of Boulder High School, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and, the George Washington University School of Medicine. Interned at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia before joining the US Navy in July, 1967
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Saunders.
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Killed in a non-hostile vehicle accident in Vung Tau.
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Interned at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia before joining the US Navy in July, 1967
Other Memories The 27-year-old physician interned at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia for a year before entering the Navy in July 1967. The lieutenant, a Boulder, Colorado native, had attended George Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis before coming to Philadelphia. Hed died in Vung Tau, Vietnam, on February 23, 1968. Source: Philadelphia Daily News 10/26/1987
