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JOHN PAUL NOWICKI
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 13, 1936 – September 1, 1968
Service recordJohn Paul Nowicki, of Winooski, Vermont, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 1, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 21
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Track Vehicle Repairer (63H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- September 13, 1936
- Home of record
- Winooski, Vermont (Chittenden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 1, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date September 1, 1968; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 21
- EDWARD MERLE JACKSONPrivate First Class · September 1, 1968
- STEVE MASAO OHARASpecialist Four · September 1, 1968
- JOHN THOMAS PEEKPrivate First Class · September 1, 1968
- RONNIE CARDOZA PIMENTELPrivate First Class · September 1, 1968
From Winooski
- PHILIP MICHAEL GERMAINSergeant · February 1, 1968
- HAROLD ROGER SMITHPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- ARMAND PAUL LESAGEPrivate First Class · April 7, 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.