Son Edward Dwornik, Detroit, Michigan.
Cody High School, Detroit, Class of 1966.
Army (Regular) SP4 Welder,
15th Engineer Company, 299th Engineer Battalion, 937th Engineer Group.
Killed in action, rocket fire on Engineer Compound, AF DAK TO Base,
near Dak To City, South Vietnam.
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
Vietnam Wall Panel 23 W, Line 008.
His photo was featured in "The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam One Week's Toll", LIFE, June 27, 1969, p. 21.
For more information: Vietnam Wall of Faces, Coffelt Database of Vietnam Casualties.
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Edit by Tammy (Time Traveler) ID 47004136.
In the first half of 1969, three companies of the 299th Combat Engineer Battalion and the 15th Light Equipment Company defended the big American base and air strip at Dak To, RVN, against the North Vietnamese Army's 66th Infantry Regiment and 40th Artillery Regiment. From January through July of 1969, some six hundred bulldozer drivers, crane and front-end loader operators, mechanics, medics, cooks, clerks, truck drivers, and other non-infantry men defended the rugged, jungle-covered mountain in the Central Highlands northwest of Kontum near the Laos and Cambodian borders. From May 9 until the second week of July, the NVA shelled the mountain virtually every day with 122mm rockets, 81mm mortar rounds, recoilless rifles, and B-40 rockets. The deadliest single attack took place on May 28, 1969, when a 122mm NVA rocket came screaming directly into the 15th Light Equipment's headquarters bunker. The heavily sandbagged bunker, sunk some twenty feet in the ground, was crowded with engineers, including a thirty-man reaction force. Nine men, including Company Commander 1LT Franklin L. Koch, were killed. The other lost Americans comprised FSGT Dudley J. Benefiel Jr., SP4 Floyd E. Barber, SP5 James S. Colombero, SP4 Valentine M. Dwornik, SP4 Edward T. Kiezkowski, SP4 David R. Mann, SP4 Dennis R. Meetze, and SFC Luther R. Perkins (who died of his wounds on June 9, 1969). Another nineteen were wounded. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and digitaledition.qwinc.com]
Cody High School, Detroit, Class of 1966.
Army (Regular) SP4 Welder,
15th Engineer Company, 299th Engineer Battalion, 937th Engineer Group.
Killed in action, rocket fire on Engineer Compound, AF DAK TO Base,
near Dak To City, South Vietnam.
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
Vietnam Wall Panel 23 W, Line 008.
His photo was featured in "The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam One Week's Toll", LIFE, June 27, 1969, p. 21.
For more information: Vietnam Wall of Faces, Coffelt Database of Vietnam Casualties.
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Edit by Tammy (Time Traveler) ID 47004136.
In the first half of 1969, three companies of the 299th Combat Engineer Battalion and the 15th Light Equipment Company defended the big American base and air strip at Dak To, RVN, against the North Vietnamese Army's 66th Infantry Regiment and 40th Artillery Regiment. From January through July of 1969, some six hundred bulldozer drivers, crane and front-end loader operators, mechanics, medics, cooks, clerks, truck drivers, and other non-infantry men defended the rugged, jungle-covered mountain in the Central Highlands northwest of Kontum near the Laos and Cambodian borders. From May 9 until the second week of July, the NVA shelled the mountain virtually every day with 122mm rockets, 81mm mortar rounds, recoilless rifles, and B-40 rockets. The deadliest single attack took place on May 28, 1969, when a 122mm NVA rocket came screaming directly into the 15th Light Equipment's headquarters bunker. The heavily sandbagged bunker, sunk some twenty feet in the ground, was crowded with engineers, including a thirty-man reaction force. Nine men, including Company Commander 1LT Franklin L. Koch, were killed. The other lost Americans comprised FSGT Dudley J. Benefiel Jr., SP4 Floyd E. Barber, SP5 James S. Colombero, SP4 Valentine M. Dwornik, SP4 Edward T. Kiezkowski, SP4 David R. Mann, SP4 Dennis R. Meetze, and SFC Luther R. Perkins (who died of his wounds on June 9, 1969). Another nineteen were wounded. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and digitaledition.qwinc.com]
Son Edward Dwornik, Detroit, Michigan.
Cody High School, Detroit, Class of 1966.
Army (Regular) SP4 Welder,
15th Engineer Company, 299th Engineer Battalion, 937th Engineer Group.
Killed in action, rocket fire on Engineer Compound, AF DAK TO Base,
near Dak To City, South Vietnam.
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
Vietnam Wall Panel 23 W, Line 008.
His photo was featured in "The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam One Week's Toll", LIFE, June 27, 1969, p. 21.
For more information: Vietnam Wall of Faces, Coffelt Database of Vietnam Casualties.
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Edit by Tammy (Time Traveler) ID 47004136.
In the first half of 1969, three companies of the 299th Combat Engineer Battalion and the 15th Light Equipment Company defended the big American base and air strip at Dak To, RVN, against the North Vietnamese Army's 66th Infantry Regiment and 40th Artillery Regiment. From January through July of 1969, some six hundred bulldozer drivers, crane and front-end loader operators, mechanics, medics, cooks, clerks, truck drivers, and other non-infantry men defended the rugged, jungle-covered mountain in the Central Highlands northwest of Kontum near the Laos and Cambodian borders. From May 9 until the second week of July, the NVA shelled the mountain virtually every day with 122mm rockets, 81mm mortar rounds, recoilless rifles, and B-40 rockets. The deadliest single attack took place on May 28, 1969, when a 122mm NVA rocket came screaming directly into the 15th Light Equipment's headquarters bunker. The heavily sandbagged bunker, sunk some twenty feet in the ground, was crowded with engineers, including a thirty-man reaction force. Nine men, including Company Commander 1LT Franklin L. Koch, were killed. The other lost Americans comprised FSGT Dudley J. Benefiel Jr., SP4 Floyd E. Barber, SP5 James S. Colombero, SP4 Valentine M. Dwornik, SP4 Edward T. Kiezkowski, SP4 David R. Mann, SP4 Dennis R. Meetze, and SFC Luther R. Perkins (who died of his wounds on June 9, 1969). Another nineteen were wounded. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and digitaledition.qwinc.com]
Cody High School, Detroit, Class of 1966.
Army (Regular) SP4 Welder,
15th Engineer Company, 299th Engineer Battalion, 937th Engineer Group.
Killed in action, rocket fire on Engineer Compound, AF DAK TO Base,
near Dak To City, South Vietnam.
Purple Heart
Army Commendation Medal
Vietnam Wall Panel 23 W, Line 008.
His photo was featured in "The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam One Week's Toll", LIFE, June 27, 1969, p. 21.
For more information: Vietnam Wall of Faces, Coffelt Database of Vietnam Casualties.
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Edit by Tammy (Time Traveler) ID 47004136.
In the first half of 1969, three companies of the 299th Combat Engineer Battalion and the 15th Light Equipment Company defended the big American base and air strip at Dak To, RVN, against the North Vietnamese Army's 66th Infantry Regiment and 40th Artillery Regiment. From January through July of 1969, some six hundred bulldozer drivers, crane and front-end loader operators, mechanics, medics, cooks, clerks, truck drivers, and other non-infantry men defended the rugged, jungle-covered mountain in the Central Highlands northwest of Kontum near the Laos and Cambodian borders. From May 9 until the second week of July, the NVA shelled the mountain virtually every day with 122mm rockets, 81mm mortar rounds, recoilless rifles, and B-40 rockets. The deadliest single attack took place on May 28, 1969, when a 122mm NVA rocket came screaming directly into the 15th Light Equipment's headquarters bunker. The heavily sandbagged bunker, sunk some twenty feet in the ground, was crowded with engineers, including a thirty-man reaction force. Nine men, including Company Commander 1LT Franklin L. Koch, were killed. The other lost Americans comprised FSGT Dudley J. Benefiel Jr., SP4 Floyd E. Barber, SP5 James S. Colombero, SP4 Valentine M. Dwornik, SP4 Edward T. Kiezkowski, SP4 David R. Mann, SP4 Dennis R. Meetze, and SFC Luther R. Perkins (who died of his wounds on June 9, 1969). Another nineteen were wounded. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and digitaledition.qwinc.com]
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SP4 15 ENGINEER CO
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NOV 13 1948 MAY 28 1969
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