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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth William Wawersik.

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KENNETH WILLIAM WAWERSIK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 17, 1945 – December 14, 1966

Service record

Kenneth William Wawersik, of Weidman, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 46

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
B BTRY 3 BN 13 ARTY 25 INF DIV
Born
April 17, 1945
Home of record
Weidman, Michigan (Isabella County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 14, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “B BTRY 3 BN 13 ARTY 25 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 46

Same unit, same day

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.