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CHARLES FRANCIS ORLOWSKI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 15, 1948 – March 21, 1969
Service recordCharles Francis Orlowski, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 1
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 1
- DAVID BRUCE PETERSONCaptain · March 21, 1969
- ROBERT EMMETT PIERSONPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
- LEONARD LEE PRESTON JRFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1969
- RENE ANTHONY SANTOSSpecialist Five · March 21, 1969
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.