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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 Edward Thomas Kiezkowski.

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EDWARD THOMAS KIEZKOWSKI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 5, 1948 – May 28, 1969

Service record

Edward Thomas Kiezkowski, of Butler, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 9

Position of Panel 23W 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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
15 ENG CO 299 ENG BN
Born
August 5, 1948
Home of record
Butler, Pennsylvania (Butler County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1969
Age
20
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1969; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “15 ENG CO 299 ENG BN”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 9

Same unit, same day

From Butler

All 16 names from Butler →

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.