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DAVID STANLEY KOSSOWSKI
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 11, 1948 – July 30, 1968
Service recordDavid Stanley Kossowski, of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 30, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 36
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- January 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Stevens Point, Wisconsin (Portage County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date July 30, 1968. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 36
- JAMES EDWARD KANDELLance Corporal · July 30, 1968
- KENNETH DAVID LINSECorporal · July 30, 1968
- DENNIS DEWAIN MANNINGLance Corporal · July 30, 1968
- RICHARD HENRY MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH DAVID LINSECorporal · Panel 50W, Line 36
From Stevens Point
- GERALD JOSEPH BANNACHSergeant First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS HARRY TREBATOSKIAirman First Class · October 3, 1966
- GEORGE THOMAS MURRAYPlatoon Sergeant · June 17, 1967
- GERALD KROPIDLOWSKILance Corporal · November 2, 1967
- ROBERT GEORGE ZINKPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- KENNETH JAMES GARSKISergeant · March 28, 1970
- JOSEPH PETER JURGELLAPetty Officer First Class · October 25, 1970
- CLARENCE MYRON SUCHONCorporal · March 22, 1971
- JOHN ANTHONY JELICHChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 1, 1972
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.