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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Anthony Edward Kisucky.

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ANTHONY EDWARD KISUCKY

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

June 18, 1944 – November 30, 1967

Service record

Anthony Edward Kisucky, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 30, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 13

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Frs Basic Ch-46 Pilot (I) (7561)
Born
June 18, 1944
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1967
Age
23
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 13

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.