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DAVID MARTIN DLUZAK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 8, 1943 – March 5, 1968
Service recordDavid Martin Dluzak, of Crown Point, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 8, 1943
- Home of record
- Crown Point, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 5
- DEAN LAVERNE DALBERGPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- JUAN JOSEPH DEMARACorporal · March 5, 1968
- PABLO DURANPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- JUAN FLORES JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES RAY INBODENSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 7
From Crown Point
- ROBERT CARL BRIXPrivate First Class · December 12, 1965
- RONALD A VANSESSENFirst Lieutenant · October 31, 1966
- JAMES ROBERT BLEVINSSpecialist Four · November 5, 1966
- JAMES ALBERT PINTARLance Corporal · January 8, 1968
- BRUCE WAYNE STAEHLISergeant · April 30, 1968
- GERALD WILLIAM FIEGLEMaster Gunnery Sergeant · May 5, 1968
- THOMAS JOE HOECKELBERGSpecialist Five · December 23, 1968
- RICHARD ALLEN ELLSWORTHSpecialist Five · June 24, 1969
- WILLIAM JUNIOR AHARTSpecialist Five · January 9, 1970
- DARYL ROBERT GROTHAUSSpecialist Five · July 2, 1970
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.