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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 Dennis Ralph Siverling.

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DENNIS RALPH SIVERLING

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

August 12, 1942 – February 3, 1966

Service record

Dennis Ralph Siverling, of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 3, 1966, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 23

Position of Panel 18E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Born
August 12, 1942
Home of record
Ladysmith, Wisconsin

Casualty

Date of death
February 3, 1966
Age
23
Added to the Wall
2013

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 23

From Ladysmith

Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2013, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.