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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Andrew Zbigniew Lisowski.

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ANDREW ZBIGNIEW LISOWSKI

Captain · U.S. Army

March 11, 1946 – May 5, 1970

Service record

Andrew Zbigniew Lisowski, of Evanston, Illinois, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 103

Position of Panel 11W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
March 11, 1946
Home of record
Evanston, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 5, 1970
Age
24
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 103

From Evanston

All 20 names from Evanston →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.