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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 Felix Anthony Sisario.

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FELIX ANTHONY SISARIO

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 1, 1930 – January 1, 1968

Service record

Felix Anthony Sisario, of Amsterdam, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 1, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 14

Position of Panel 33E 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Laboratory Specialist (92B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
October 1, 1930
Home of record
Amsterdam, New York (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 1, 1968
Age
37
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date January 1, 1968; ten of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 14

Same unit, same day

From Amsterdam

All 13 names from Amsterdam →

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.