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LEROY WALTER CWIKLA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 16, 1943 – March 26, 1967
Service recordLeroy Walter Cwikla, of Lublin, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 50
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- September 16, 1943
- Home of record
- Lublin, Wisconsin (Taylor County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 50
- RONALD CALEB DAVISPrivate First Class · March 26, 1967
- JOSEPH CARMINE DEJESSAPrivate First Class · March 26, 1967
- JACK TAYLOR DEMPSEYColonel · March 26, 1967
- DOUGLAS EUGENE DICKEYPrivate First Class · March 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROLAND A CUTCHINSSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 49
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.