Mark Robert Dziedzic
Private First Class
H CO, 2ND BN, 4TH MARINES, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Oak Creek, Wisconsin
July 12, 1946 to March 16, 1968
MARK R DZIEDZIC is on the Wall at Panel 44E, Line 67

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 Mark R Dziedzic
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22 Nov 2006

Mark, I just gotten to know you when your life was taken along with my best friend Dave Simmons, and Dennis Zwirchitz on a daylight patrol north of the Cua Viet River. It was devastating to lose all three of you together. Someday, we will meet again.

From a friend and fellow Marine,
Lee S. Aitken
9970 N. Black Mesa Trail, Tucson, Arizona 85742
laitken1@msn.com


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

16 March 1968:
     Hotel Company made heavy contact while successfully extracting an eight man recon patrol which earlier made contact with a large enemy force at YD 261659, the fortified village of Vinh Quan Ha. 21 enemy were killed while friendly losses were 3 KIA (BNR) and 9 WIAE. The bodies were recovered on 18 March 1968.

From the 2/4 Marines' Command Chronology, March 1968

The three men who died while rescuing their fellow Marines were

  • 2nd Plt, A Co, 5th Tank Bn (BLT 2/4's attached tank platoon):
  • H Co, 2nd Bn, 4th Marines:

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