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JAN IVAN RASENYUCK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 17, 1946 – August 28, 1969
Service recordJan Ivan Rasenyuck, of Brighton, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 28, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 3
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- July 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Brighton, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 28, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date August 28, 1969; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 3
- ROBERT WARREN MCCABE JRLance Corporal · August 28, 1969
- THOMAS PATRICK MCKERNSPrivate First Class · August 28, 1969
- WILLIAM FAY RABURNSpecialist Four · August 28, 1969
- JOHN CURTIS REEVSLance Corporal · August 28, 1969
From Brighton
- RAYMOND MAURICE DARRIGANSergeant First Class · February 6, 1967
- LOUIS DAVID DOBBIN IIFirst Lieutenant · May 18, 1967
- JAMES C OREILLY JRHospitalman · September 4, 1967
- HENRY JOSEPH SERVENT JRSpecialist Four · March 16, 1968
- LEO EDWARD SWAN JRLance Corporal · April 20, 1968
- PAMELA DOROTHY DONOVANSecond Lieutenant · July 8, 1968
- MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BURNSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- BENNIE FRANK JONESPrivate First Class · January 9, 1971
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.