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ROBERT EDGAR RATAJCZAK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 20, 1951 – March 16, 1971
Service recordRobert Edgar Ratajczak, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 53
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- March 20, 1951
- Home of record
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1971; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 53
- CHARLES DAVID ALLEN JRCaptain · March 16, 1971
- DUANE GEORGE HOWELLCorporal · March 16, 1971
- EDMUND EDWARD ROBERGESergeant First Class · March 16, 1971
- RAYMOND JOSEPH SAATHOFFLance Corporal · March 16, 1971
From Oshkosh
- ORLAND ORRIN BEARWALDPrivate First Class · September 8, 1965
- KENNETH BRUCE HAWLEYCorporal · August 12, 1966
- PAUL EDWARD MANSKEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS DOBISHPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- DONALD ROY LASTSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT FISCHERSergeant · July 23, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN MEHNEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- JAMES JEROME LINDSergeant · January 5, 1968
- CHRISTIAN ALAN LANGENFELDPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- STEVEN LYNN ZOBELLance Corporal · May 21, 1968
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.