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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Daniel F Kaszubowski.

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DANIEL F KASZUBOWSKI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 7, 1949 – April 18, 1970

Service record

Daniel F Kaszubowski, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 22

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 7, 1949
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 18, 1970
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1970; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 22

Same unit, same day

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.