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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 Wallace Kingsley Siner.

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WALLACE KINGSLEY SINER

Captain · U.S. Army

November 15, 1935 – January 5, 1966

Service record

Wallace Kingsley Siner, of El Paso, Texas, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 55

Position of Panel 4E 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Ranger, Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (82162)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
November 15, 1935
Home of record
El Paso, Texas (El Paso County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 5, 1966
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 55

Same unit, same day

From El Paso

All 126 names from El Paso →

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.