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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Charle Mroczynski.

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RAYMOND CHARLE MROCZYNSKI

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

August 11, 1940 – February 26, 1969

Service record

Raymond Charle Mroczynski, of Manchester, New Hampshire, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 75

Position of Panel 31W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
Unit (as recorded)
SB 3 BN 197 ARTY 23 ARTY GRP
Born
August 11, 1940
Home of record
Manchester, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 26, 1969
Age
28
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

61 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1969; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 75

From Manchester

All 38 names from Manchester →

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.