Paul jumped at McCall during the 1946-47 seasons. He had ten fire jumps his rookie year and followed that with five more in 1947. Paul, 64, died, in Newport, Oregon, April 10, 1988. He was born in Republic, Kansas, April 19, 1923, and had been a millwright in Toledo, Oregon, since 1948.

Paul (PFC) was an Airborne medic during WWII and captured June 7, 1944, and was a prisoner of war. He is buried in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.