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TADEUSZ SOSNIAK
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 12, 1931 – August 30, 1968
Service recordTadeusz Sosniak served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 10
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
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 12, 1931
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 45W, Line 10
- ORIL WILLIAM HAWLEYPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- JORGE ALVARADO SILVASSpecialist Four · August 30, 1968
- WILLIAM HASKELL SMOCKPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- JOHN LEO TRACYPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD EUGENE TRASTERPrivate First Class · Panel 45W, Line 6
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.