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WACLAW JOZEF MACZULSKI
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
December 12, 1936 – March 21, 1968
Service recordWaclaw Jozef Maczulski, of Bayonne, New Jersey, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 21, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 51
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Small Arms Repairer/Technician (2111)
- Born
- December 12, 1936
- Home of record
- Bayonne, New Jersey (Hudson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 51
- RONALD JAMES ROMEROCorporal · March 21, 1968
- RUDOLPHO SANCHEZCorporal · March 21, 1968
- CARL MICHAEL STITELYStaff Sergeant · March 21, 1968
- CHESLEY ALEXANDER STORYLance Corporal · March 21, 1968
From Bayonne
- MICHAEL DANIEL CHWANCaptain · September 30, 1965
- STANLEY JOHN KOPCINSKILance Corporal · May 14, 1966
- FRANCIS MICHAEL MCGUIREPrivate · March 20, 1967
- THOMAS CHESTER BEKIEMPISLance Corporal · March 28, 1967
- VICTOR MANUEL NEGRONAirman First Class · September 19, 1967
- FRANK ANDRISANO JRCorporal · November 19, 1967
- DONALD JOSEPH CRUDENStaff Sergeant · December 27, 1967
- JAMES FRANCIS SOSNOWSKICaptain · February 16, 1968
- JAMES WITTPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- DENNIS SMITHPrivate First Class · 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.