Rank: Private First Class
Unit: 919th Engineer Company, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 31B – Field Communications Electronics Equipment Mechanic
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 4-Sep-1947
Hometown: Greendale, Wisconsin
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 16-Aug-1966
Start of tour: 3-Apr-1967
Incident date: 15-Jul-1967
Date of casualty: 15-Jul-1967
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Donald Paskowicz died as a result of metal fragment wounds received while a passenger in a military vehicle enroute to repair a bridge.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
MAJ Donald Jack Crocker
MSG Everett August Herritz
PFC Harry Allen Kelly
PFC Donald Paskowicz
Location of fatality: Phuoc Tuy, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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