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EDWARD WESLEY PAWLOWSKI
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
December 20, 1943 – March 23, 1969
Service recordEdward Wesley Pawlowski, of Union, New Jersey, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 23, 1969, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 20
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Born
- December 20, 1943
- Home of record
- Union, New Jersey (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 20
- GREGORY EUGENE NEWMANSergeant · March 23, 1969
- DAVID DEWAYNE OVERSTREETPetty Officer Third Class · March 23, 1969
- CARL HARMAN PETERS JRSergeant · March 23, 1969
- LOUIS BERNARD WANER IISpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
From Union
- CLIFFORD S HEATHCOTE JRCaptain · September 3, 1966
- EDWARD BRUCE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES DALEYPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- JEFFREY WAYNE KOONCESergeant · November 19, 1967
- FREDDIE WHITAKERStaff Sergeant · April 19, 1968
- JOHN PATRICK BRENNANCaptain · October 9, 1969
- WAYNE LOUIS TORSIELLOSergeant · May 4, 1970
- RONALD C WALTERSCorporal · December 16, 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.