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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Henryk Taduesz Sulatycki.

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HENRYK TADUESZ SULATYCKI

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 12, 1924 – August 14, 1968

Service record

Henryk Taduesz Sulatycki served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48W · Line 16

Position of Panel 48W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
October 12, 1924

Casualty

Date of death
August 14, 1968
Age
43
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48W, Line 16

Same unit, same day

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.