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RICHARD MICHAEL WOYNARSKI
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 26, 1946 – October 18, 1967
Service recordRichard Michael Woynarski, of Barker, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 18, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 39
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Structural Mech (Structures) (AMS)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Barker, New York (Niagara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 18, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 28E, Line 39
- DAVID ALAN OBERLELance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- TIMOTHY LAWRENCE VICALVILance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- DENNIS GLENN BLACKMONWarrant Officer 1 · October 19, 1967
- GREGORY LYNN BROWNSpecialist Four · October 19, 1967
From Barker
- MICHAEL JOHN DUNNSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- PETER MARK KOMAROWSKISpecialist Four · February 6, 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.