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LOUIS ALLAN SNAKOVSKY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 26, 1948 – June 4, 1968
Service recordLouis Allan Snakovsky JR, of Maple Heights, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 4, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 70 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG GRP
- Born
- October 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Maple Heights, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 12
- WAYNE SHELTON PROCTORSergeant · June 4, 1968
- RICHARD ALFRED ROESLERPetty Officer Second Class · June 4, 1968
- ALDO EUGENE RYDERPrivate First Class · June 4, 1968
- MICHAEL DENNIS SODERSTROMHospitalman · June 4, 1968
From Maple Heights
- GEORGE BRUCE MENGESMajor · January 2, 1967
- MARCO JOSEPH BARUZZISpecialist Four · February 3, 1967
- TERRY JOHN PERKOLance Corporal · February 21, 1967
- WALTER JOSEPH NERAD JRCorporal · March 30, 1967
- NICKOLAS R PALUMBO JRCorporal · August 29, 1967
- CECIL BOYD WAGNER JRCorporal · September 29, 1968
- THOMAS JAMES SCHNEIDERSpecialist Four · July 2, 1969
- BARRY ROBERT CLARKCorporal · September 5, 1969
- ALAN DAVID MARTINStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1970
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.