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EDWARD J KAMINSKI
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 29, 1928 – February 29, 1968
Service recordEdward J Kaminski, of Rahway, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 29, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 6
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Postal Clerk (71F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 29, 1928
- Home of record
- Rahway, New Jersey (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 6
- CLEVELAND SCOTT HARRISMajor · February 29, 1968
- EARL TIMOTHY JONESPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- CARL ROBERT LEEDStaff Sergeant · February 29, 1968
- KENNETH CHARLES LOCKWOODSeaman · February 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD EARL BECKWITHSpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 2
- VICTOR DICAVALLUCCISecond Lieutenant · Panel 42E, Line 3
From Rahway
- CARMINE VINCENT GENOVESEPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
- DONALD HARVEY MOSESFireman Apprentice · July 9, 1966
- GALE HERBERT FELVERPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1966
- MARTIN M DIANTONIO JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1967
- GREGORY HENRY STALEVICZPrivate First Class · June 1, 1968
- JACK ADRIAN BARNHARTPrivate First Class · August 27, 1968
- MYRON RUDOLPH ROSS IIPrivate First Class · October 3, 1968
- LESTER DANCHETZPrivate First Class · March 9, 1969
- ROBERT GEORGE SOLOMONSpecialist Four · August 19, 1969
- WILLIAM VINCENT YOUNGSpecialist Five · February 7, 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.