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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Brian Charles Wehner.

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BRIAN CHARLES WEHNER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 28, 1944 – February 27, 1967

Service record

Brian Charles Wehner, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 111

Position of Panel 15E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Manual Central Office Repairman (36G)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 37 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE
Born
December 28, 1944
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 27, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “A CO 37 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 111

Same unit, same day

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.