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RONALD LEE KIELPIKOWSKI
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 29, 1945 – February 28, 1969
Service recordRonald Lee Kielpikowski, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 97
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 29, 1945
- Home of record
- Green Bay, Wisconsin (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 97
- BYRON LEE TENNANTSecond Lieutenant · February 28, 1969
- STANLEY EUGENE URPrivate First Class · February 28, 1969
- GLEN ORVILLE VENETSpecialist Four · February 28, 1969
- DONALD CHARLES VOLTNERPrivate First Class · February 28, 1969
From Green Bay
- JAMES DAVID LAHAYECommander · May 8, 1965
- RICHARD CHARLES MCKEE JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- DANIEL RAYMOND SMEESTERCorporal · July 1, 1967
- RICHARD THOMAS JACKSONSergeant · January 6, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD LOYHospitalman · January 11, 1968
- JOSEPH LLOYD BEGOTKASergeant · January 27, 1968
- LAWRENCE NORBART STANGELConstructionman · January 31, 1968
- GEARWIN PHILLIP TOUSEYPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JOSEPH DEAN SEIBERTSergeant · March 6, 1968
- FRANK VINCENT HERRERASergeant · April 4, 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.