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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 Paul Joseph Maciuszek.

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PAUL JOSEPH MACIUSZEK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 22, 1946 – June 2, 1967

Service record

Paul Joseph Maciuszek, of New Haven, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 2, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 35

Position of Panel 21E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
Born
June 22, 1946
Home of record
New Haven, Connecticut (New Haven County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 2, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 35

From New Haven

All 38 names from New Haven →

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.