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HARRY JAY KORDASIEWICZ
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 4, 1946 – April 6, 1968
Service recordHarry Jay Kordasiewicz, of Kenmore, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 29
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- M CO 3 BN 3 MAR
- Born
- July 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Kenmore, New York (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 29
- DANIEL RAY KETTMANNPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- HERMAN AUGUSTA LOHMAN JRCorporal · April 6, 1968
- FREDERICK EUGENE LOVESpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- LARRY JEROME LYONSStaff Sergeant · April 6, 1968
From Kenmore
- KENNETH WILLIAM ORTON JRSergeant · April 26, 1967
- GEORGE FRANCIS CATALANOPrivate First Class · July 30, 1967
- ROGER EDWARD KELLYLance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- WILLIAM EIDMAN WILCOX JRSpecialist Four · May 10, 1968
- THOMAS F FLANIGAN IICaptain · September 15, 1968
- RONALD SHAFER PIERCEPrivate · May 7, 1969
- JOHN LAWRENCE WARDStaff Sergeant · April 27, 1970
- JOHN GEORGE PAGEPrivate First Class · September 12, 1970
- ROBERT ARTHUR BOJANEKSpecialist Four · November 30, 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.