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GERALD ALBERT HUCZEK
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 4, 1947 – February 11, 1968
Service recordGerald Albert Huczek, of Roseville, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Roseville, Michigan (Macomb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 77
- DONALD ARTHUR HAUSRATH JRSecond Lieutenant · February 11, 1968
- PETER ALAN HILLPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- GEORGE JONATHAN HOUSEPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- DANNY RAY HOWELLSpecialist Five · February 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CRAIG GEOFFREY KNOBLOCHPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 78
From Roseville
- RANDALL BOYD PRINZSpecialist Four · April 11, 1966
- TRACY LEE JONESCorporal · February 12, 1967
- STEVEN ROSS KINGCorporal · February 14, 1967
- DOUGLAS C STARRYSpecialist Four · September 25, 1967
- DALE MICHAEL LAUSESpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- WALTER LEVON CLARKSergeant · October 29, 1967
- GENE DIRITACorporal · December 10, 1967
- HENRY LOUIS OLSONPrivate First Class · December 17, 1967
- FRED HAROLD SPEARPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- RICHARD FLOYD TURPIN IIISpecialist Four · May 6, 1968
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.