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JAN JOSEPH GRABOWSKI JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 20, 1946 – March 21, 1967
Service recordJan Joseph Grabowski JR, of Jamesburg, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- August 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Jamesburg, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 3
- TENNIS CRISPIAN FERRELLStaff Sergeant · March 21, 1967
- WALTER HENRY FORBES IIICaptain · March 21, 1967
- BRIAN FRANCIS GIBBONSPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- WILLIE GRANT JRSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 130
- ROBERT MICHAEL CARTWRIGHTSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 130
- WALTER GENE MERVIN ELLISSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 2
- JACK DENNIS HANGERSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 4
- ROBERT LEE HENDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 4
- DANIEL JENNINGS HOLCOMBSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 5
- JOE RITCHARD JORDANSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 6
- PETER SWINNERTON LARSONCaptain · Panel 17E, Line 6
- HENRY C LEEStaff Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 7
- PHILIP AARON MCNINCHPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 10
- ROBERT EGMEDIO OCAMPOPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 11
- ROBERT MERRITT PINNELL JRSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 12
- STEPHEN DONALD PLEASANTPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 12
- RAY ANTHONY RHODESSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 12
- FREDERICK WILLIAM SEPUTSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 13
From Jamesburg
- RICHARD V IVESSpecialist Four · August 8, 1966
- JAMES JOHN BARTONPrivate · June 21, 1969
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.