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CHESTER LAWREN WITANEK JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 7, 1947 – July 25, 1968
Service recordChester Lawren Witanek JR, of Cheshire, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 25, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Cheshire, Massachusetts (Berkshire County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1968; nine of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 11
- LEE DINO TSOSIECorporal · July 25, 1968
- MERVIN EDEN WALLACECorporal · July 25, 1968
- ROBERT LEE WENZELSergeant · July 25, 1968
- THURMAN WILLIAM WINSTONCorporal · July 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM S BAKERStaff Sergeant · Panel 50W, Line 4
- BRENDON JAY BERRIGANSergeant · Panel 50W, Line 4
- VAN ALLEN IRWINSergeant First Class · Panel 50W, Line 6
- WAYNE ARNOLD KELLERPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 6
- RICHARD ROSS TOLETTESecond Lieutenant · Panel 50W, Line 7
- PAUL HOWARD NABORSStaff Sergeant · Panel 50W, Line 8
- JACK RICHARD SANBORNSpecialist Four · Panel 50W, Line 9
- THOMAS ALBERT LUTGESergeant First Class · Panel 50W, Line 10
- JOHNNIE BRUCE SEWELLCorporal · Panel 50W, Line 10
From Cheshire
- HOWARD HENRY LUSCIERLance Corporal · September 10, 1968
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.