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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edward Malinowski.

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EDWARD MALINOWSKI

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 21, 1945 – July 30, 1966

Service record

Edward Malinowski, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 89

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 299 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
April 21, 1945
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 30, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Five names on the Wall carry the date July 30, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 89

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.