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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Casimir Niespodziany.

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CASIMIR NIESPODZIANY

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

February 27, 1937 – February 3, 1967

Service record

Casimir Niespodziany, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 113

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
February 27, 1937
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 3, 1967
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 113

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.