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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 Alfred Webb JR.

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ALFRED WEBB JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 9, 1949 – April 11, 1969

Service record

Alfred Webb JR, of Hinckley, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 60

Position of Panel 27W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
February 9, 1949
Home of record
Hinckley, Minnesota (Pine County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 60

Same unit, same day

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.