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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Edward Dziwisz JR.

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FRANK EDWARD DZIWISZ JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 9, 1944 – September 27, 1966

Service record

Frank Edward Dziwisz JR, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 21

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
October 9, 1944
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 27, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Chicago

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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.