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JEREMY ROBERT WOJTKIEWICZ
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
February 28, 1944 – January 17, 1969
Service recordJeremy Robert Wojtkiewicz, of Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 30
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer Unit Commander (1331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 19 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- February 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin (Rusk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 30
- JIMMIE EDWARD TRENTSpecialist Four · January 17, 1969
- JOHN HERBERT WEAVERCommander · January 17, 1969
- PAUL JOSIAH WILSONFirst Lieutenant · January 17, 1969
- JOHN REX BARTLETTSergeant · January 18, 1969
From Weyerhaeuser
- LARRY RALPH LALANSpecialist Four · November 10, 1968
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.