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RONALD MICHAEL URBANSKI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 28, 1947 – February 20, 1968
Service recordRonald Michael Urbanski, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 49
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Pittston, Pennsylvania (Luzerne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 49
- DAVID N VALERIOSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- WALTER EARL VONDERCHEKSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- JAMES LARRY WESTSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- ALBERT CLARENCE WOODS JRSergeant · February 20, 1968
From Pittston
- EDMUND SKUNDAPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- WILLIAM RAYMOND KAUSECorporal · September 20, 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.