Rank: Sergeant
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 3-Apr-1933
Hometown: Tazewell, Virginia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 17-May-1953
Start of tour: 1-Dec-1969
Incident date: 14-Apr-1970
Date of casualty: 14-Apr-1970
Age at death: 37
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Paul Frederick Sayers was killed while at an artillery firing position when the area came under rocket and mortar attack a hostile force. / At fire support base (FSB). Received hostile rocket and mortar attack.
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 517 832
Place of interment: Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Virginia, USA
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