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GREGORY STANLEY KOWALESKI
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 12, 1947 – May 20, 1968
Service recordGregory Stanley Kowaleski, of Riverside, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 64E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 64E · 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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Riverside, New Jersey (Burlington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 64E, Line 6
- GENE ALFRED LABOUNTYLance Corporal · May 20, 1968
- JOHN DAVIS LARRY JRSergeant · May 20, 1968
- LARRY LEON MITCHELLSpecialist Four · May 20, 1968
- GARY KEVE MORRISCorporal · May 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY LEON MITCHELLSpecialist Four · Panel 64E, Line 6
- MICHAEL DAVIS REEVESCorporal · Panel 64E, Line 8
- DONALD CHARLES WOODPrivate First Class · Panel 64E, Line 10
From Riverside
- PAUL JOHN MONGILLOMajor · December 17, 1967
- GEORGE GUY CAPPARELLIPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- STEPHEN BRIAN MURRAYPrivate First Class · March 3, 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.