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PAUL FRANCIS KOSTICK
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 10, 1948 – August 25, 1969
Service recordPaul Francis Kostick, of Gilberton, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 113
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- January 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Gilberton, Pennsylvania (Schuylkill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 25, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 113
- ALLEN LYNN HITESLance Corporal · August 25, 1969
- DIXON TALMADGE KINARDSergeant First Class · August 25, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES LAWRENCEPrivate First Class · August 25, 1969
- MELVIN W LAYSergeant First Class · August 25, 1969
- STEPHEN EUGENE BEBOUTSergeant · January 9, 1972
Same unit, same day
- FELIPE HERNANDEZPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 112
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.