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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Peter Nogiewich.

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WILLIAM PETER NOGIEWICH

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 31, 1948 – January 31, 1969

Service record

William Peter Nogiewich, of Huntington Station, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33W · Line 27

Position of Panel 33W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
May 31, 1948
Home of record
Huntington Station, New York (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 31, 1969
Age
20
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1969; seven of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33W, Line 27

Same unit, same day

From Huntington Station

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.