Finding Aid — SGT Paul William Malec
A downloadable research packet on SGT Paul William Malec (D Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division) — assembled for his family as a starting point for their own research, not as a finished biography.
It gathers what the archive holds and can reasonably infer about Paul: his identity and service; a careful reconciliation of his 21 March 1966 wounding (the official "hostile / fragmentation wounds" record set alongside his family's account, with the primary sources that reconcile them); the operations his battalion conducted during his tour; the firebases and landing zones it held within his service window (tiered by confidence, for matching against family photographs); the men around him; everything the archive holds on him; and concrete leads for continuing the research.
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Photographs of Paul Malec courtesy of David Malec (great-grandson). The finding aid is a research aid, not an official military record.