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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Zdzislaw Bruno Kadlewicz.

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ZDZISLAW BRUNO KADLEWICZ

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 16, 1936 – June 27, 1969

Service record

Zdzislaw Bruno Kadlewicz, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 23

Position of Panel 21W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
October 16, 1936
Home of record
Fitchburg, Massachusetts (Worcester County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 27, 1969
Age
32
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 23

Same unit, same day

From Fitchburg

All 12 names from Fitchburg →

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.