PFC Paul V. Quaglieri was a Heavy Construction Equipment Operator assigned to the 501st Engineer Company. He served a short time as a Rome Plow operator, coming to the 501st as an 11 Bravo (infantryman) in January 1969.
On March 13, 1969, after only a brief initial training on the plow, he was participating in a jungle-clearing mission on very hilly terrain around the area of Bien Hoa in Bien Hoa Province, RVN. During the operation, PFC Quaglieri’s plow slipped off a ridge and overturned several times as it plummeted to the bottom of a steep ravine. There were no seat belts in the plow to restrain him. His body was later found lying within the separated and mangled remnants of the plow’s steel cage where it had settled amongst the wreckage.
[Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and the book “Grading Vietnam” by Terry T. Brown]
Notification of death went to Rhode Island, but he was interred in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California. Find A Grave Memorial
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