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JOHN MICHAEL RYDLEWICZ
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
April 19, 1947 – August 12, 1971
Service recordJohn Michael Rydlewicz, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on August 12, 1971, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 130
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. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- April 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1971
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1971; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuy Province that day. In August 1971, 116 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 130
- ROBERT THOMAS NELSONSpecialist Five · August 12, 1971
- GAIL LYNN STRICKLANDSpecialist Four · August 12, 1971
- JOHN CLYDE THOMPSON JRFirst Lieutenant · August 12, 1971
- JAMES WRIGHTStaff Sergeant · August 12, 1971
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.