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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Louis A Pavlacky JR.

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LOUIS A PAVLACKY JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 5, 1945 – March 14, 1970

Service record

Louis A Pavlacky JR, of Delavan, Wisconsin, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 14, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 13W · Line 128

Position of Panel 13W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 5, 1945
Home of record
Delavan, Wisconsin (Walworth County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 14, 1970
Age
24
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date March 14, 1970; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 13W, Line 128

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From Delavan

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.