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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 Marc Anthony Sivatta.

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MARC ANTHONY SIVATTA

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

November 12, 1945 – June 20, 1966

Service record

Marc Anthony Sivatta, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 20, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 69

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Artillery Scout Observer (0846)
Unit (as recorded)
I CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
Born
November 12, 1945
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 20, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “I CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 69

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.