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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lawrence Robert Kusilek.

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LAWRENCE ROBERT KUSILEK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 2, 1946 – February 16, 1967

Service record

Lawrence Robert Kusilek, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 46

Position of Panel 15E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
January 2, 1946
Home of record
St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 16, 1967
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

80 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 107 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 46

Same unit, same day

From St Paul

All 132 names from St Paul →

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.