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ZYGMUNT PAUL JABLONSKI JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 21, 1947 – February 21, 1968
Service recordZygmunt Paul Jablonski JR, of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- June 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts (Hampden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 53
- CHARLES RONALD HORTONPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- JOSEPH HUDSON JRPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- THOMAS LEE JORDANPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- RAMON JURADOPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD PATRICK FRASCACorporal · Panel 40E, Line 52
- ROY RAY ROBINSONSpecialist Five · Panel 40E, Line 55
- WALTER ROBINSONCorporal · Panel 40E, Line 55
From Chicopee Falls
- EDWARD PETER STEFANIKSpecialist Four · November 6, 1966
- HAROLD JEFFREY GILBERTSergeant · February 12, 1967
- DONALD EDWARD KULACZChief Petty Officer · April 1, 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.