Dale Glenn Sievers, Jr.
Born | 16 SEP 1943 |
Died | 18 SEP 1967 |
Service Branch | Army |
Rank | Private First Class |
Rating or Job | |
Unit | |
Campaign | Viet Nam |
Military Citations | |
Honors | |
Family | |
Notes | Serial Number 56821895 Ground casualty - Multiple fragmentation wounds Binh Duong Province Pfc. Dale Glenn Sievers Jr. Sept 16, 1943-Sept 18, 1967 Chico Dale Sievers was born in Eureka and grew up Orland. After graduating in 1961 from Orland High School, he moved to Chico and worked for Valley Irrigation of Glenn County. When Sievers joined the Army in 1965. he had a wife and two children. He was sent to Vietnam on Feb. I, 1967. In September of the same year, near Quan the 23-year-old father was blown up by a Claymore mine. He survived the blast and was sent to an Army hospital in Vietnam. Relatives were told the young man would survive. Sievers, however, succumbed to the numerous sharapnel wounds on Sept. 18, 1967, two days after his 24th birthday. Chico News & Review, May 26, 1988 |
Sources |
National Archives Chico News & Review |
Mementos |