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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Eugene Wisniewski.

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DENNIS EUGENE WISNIEWSKI

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 12, 1948 – March 1, 1969

Service record

Dennis Eugene Wisniewski, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 9

Position of Panel 30W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
February 12, 1948
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 1, 1969
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 9

Same unit, same day

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.