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MARK ROBERT DZIEDZIC
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 12, 1946 – March 16, 1968
Service recordMark Robert Dziedzic, of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 67
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Oak Creek, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 44E, Line 67
- EDWARD JOHN CROSSSpecialist Four · March 16, 1968
- MARK LANE DICKSONSpecialist Four · March 16, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE ELSWICKSpecialist Four · March 16, 1968
- ALBERT ALOIS ENGELHARDTCaptain · March 16, 1968
From Oak Creek
- JAMES FREDRICK MEYER JRPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- SEVERIANO RIOSCorporal · April 2, 1970
- PETER MICHAEL VANDERWEGSergeant · July 25, 1970
- GLENN EDWARD NOWAKOWSKIWarrant Officer 1 · July 22, 1972
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.