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PAUL FRANK RUSZKIEWICZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 8, 1945 – April 24, 1967
Service recordPaul Frank Ruszkiewicz, of Hamtramck, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 24, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 82
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- September 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Hamtramck, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 24, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 24, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 82
- WILLIAM WESLEY STEWARTPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- JACK LENN SUTTONLance Corporal · April 24, 1967
- EDWIN BYRON TUCKERCommander · April 24, 1967
- RAYMOND LEE TWOMEYPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE RICHARD OBERMEIERPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 81
- WILLIAM WESLEY STEWARTPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 82
From Hamtramck
- ALTON SMITHPrivate First Class · April 1, 1967
- RICHARD KROLIKOWSKICorporal · November 14, 1967
- THOMAS CURTIS MAYSSergeant · November 25, 1967
- ROBERT JOHN KUCWAYPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
- MARVIN SCOTTSpecialist Four · June 19, 1968
- MELVIN GUYTONCorporal · March 11, 1969
- GERALD MCCORVEYSpecialist Four · May 9, 1969
- JAMES VINCENT ALDREDSpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
- JAMES ROGERS KINGPrivate First Class · September 1, 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.