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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Douglas Walkowski.

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PAUL DOUGLAS WALKOWSKI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 24, 1943 – May 21, 1966

Service record

Paul Douglas Walkowski, of Hicksville, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 100

Position of Panel 7E 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
Data Processing Equipment Operator (74A)
Born
May 24, 1943
Home of record
Hicksville, New York (Nassau County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 100

From Hicksville

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.