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JOSEPH GEORGE KUSICK
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 26, 1945 – November 8, 1967
Service recordJoseph George Kusick, of Bruin, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1967, in Laos, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 51
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Bruin, Pennsylvania (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 8, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29E, Line 51
- JOHN MICHAEL KAPELUCKSpecialist Four · November 8, 1967
- DONALD MAURICE KRETSINGERCorporal · November 8, 1967
- EARL DAWSON LAWRENCEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- GABRIEL LONAPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE RAYMOND BAXTERMaster Sergeant · Panel 29E, Line 47
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.