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JOSEPH STANLEY ZAWTOCKI JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 16, 1946 – February 8, 1968
Service recordJoseph Stanley Zawtocki JR, of Utica, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on February 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 42
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wireman (2511)
- Born
- May 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Utica, New York (Oneida County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- February 8, 1968
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
Context · from the records
What was happening
114 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1968; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38E, Line 42
- MANUEL PRIETO TORRESCorporal · February 8, 1968
- HENRY YORKCorporal · February 8, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN ALLENSpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
- DONALD DEAN ALVISStaff Sergeant · February 9, 1968
From Utica
- FRANCIS WILLIAM RUCH IIPrivate First Class · April 27, 1966
- GREGORY CHESTER BIELICKIPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- ROBERT EDWARD BUTLERPrivate First Class · December 1, 1966
- THOMAS GEORGE JONESPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- EDWARD MARK BRADYLance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- JOHN JACOB LAWENDOWSKIMajor · October 26, 1967
- LAWRENCE MARTIN JENNINGSCorporal · January 19, 1968
- JOHN ARTHUR FELSHAWPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- STANLEY GEORGE DENISOWSKISpecialist Four · October 10, 1968
- VAN LASALLE RANDOLPH JRSpecialist Four · December 9, 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.