Benjamin Eugene Slagowski (KIA)






Home: Evanston WY
Birth Date 1948-07-01
Race: Caucasian
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Latter Day Saints, Mormon
MILITARY: Army
Rank: Grade E5 SSG
MOS: 11B40
Start of Tour 1970-10-17
Casualty Date: 1971-03-12
Casualty Type: Ground Casualty, Hostile, Died Wounds
Reason: Artillery, Rocket, Mortar
Country: South Vietnam
Province: Thua Thien
Body Recovered

Benjamin is honored on Panel 04W - Row 042 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial


"I was made 'Medic' the day 'Ski'got killed. He was a Sgt. We had run out of medics and the last one we had was getting on a chopper that day to go home. I volunteered for the job, I really didn't expect to run into any real problems. We were on top of a hill getting re-supplied with c-rations. About an hour after we left the hill, we came under heavy mortar fire. Me and some real medic from a unit close by, went to him. He had been hit in the head and along his left side. A medivac got him out, I believe he had died already; I was told he died later. It was later reported as 'Friendly Fire'."
~Jack W Kato


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