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PAUL STEVEN CZERWONKA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 20, 1949 – May 10, 1968
Service recordPaul Steven Czerwonka, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 6
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D BTRY 2 BN 13 RGT 1 MARDIV
- Born
- May 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Stoughton, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D BTRY 2 BN 13 RGT 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58E, Line 6
- SHELBY EMERSON COOLEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
- LELAND PATRICK FINLEYSpecialist Four · May 10, 1968
- HORACE HIGLEY FLEMING IIIMajor · May 10, 1968
- THOMAS CLYDE SCHRIVERStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS JOSEPH BLACKMANPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 4
- JOSEPH FRANCIS COOKLance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 5
- THOMAS WILLIAM FRITSCHLance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 7
- BARRY LEE HEMPELPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 8
- RAYMOND THOMAS HEYNELance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 9
- GERALD EUGENE KINGCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 10
- ROBERT CHARLES LOPEZPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 11
- WILLIAM DEE MCGONIGLEPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 11
- DONALD WAYNE MITCHELLLance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 11
From Stoughton
- PAUL MCEACHRONPrivate First Class · August 15, 1967
- MICHAEL BERNARD SHUMANSergeant · August 26, 1968
- GEORGE FREDRICK EVANSSergeant First Class · February 28, 1969
- SIMEON JOSEPH A BERGERONSpecialist Four · March 15, 1969
- GARY RICHARD GUESTCorporal · May 27, 1969
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.