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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond John Borowski.

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RAYMOND JOHN BOROWSKI

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 5, 1935 – May 20, 1967

Service record

Raymond John Borowski, of Dearborn, Michigan, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 54

Position of Panel 20E 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 (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
April 5, 1935
Home of record
Dearborn, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 20, 1967
Age
32
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 54

Same unit, same day

From Dearborn

All 48 names from Dearborn →

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.