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VINCENT EDWARD GALKA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 23, 1951 – December 26, 1971
Service recordVincent Edward Galka, of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 26, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 92
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Powerplant Repairer (68B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 23, 1951
- Home of record
- Mckeesport, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 26, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date December 26, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In December 1971, 64 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 92
- LAWRENCE GENE STOLZMajor · June 29, 1971
- DALE FRANCIS KOONSCaptain · September 25, 1971
- ALBERT SIMON ROBALIN JRSpecialist Five · December 28, 1971
- FREDERICK LEE HOLMESCommander · December 30, 1971
From Mckeesport
- NORMAN WALLACE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- MICHAEL JOSEPH NEMCHICKPrivate First Class · February 22, 1966
- MICHAEL DENNIS PLISKAPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
- JAMES FRANCIS BROOKS JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- THOMAS JOHN WINKELVOSSStaff Sergeant · May 26, 1966
- TYRONE GREGORY BURSEPrivate First Class · August 5, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD WESTPrivate First Class · September 10, 1966
- DAVID LLOYD GEORGE MOSERStaff Sergeant · October 6, 1966
- GREGORY FRANCIS POPOWITZLance Corporal · January 24, 1968
- CURTIS TAYLOR GAYSpecialist Four · January 30, 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.