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CARL JOSHUA WIENEKE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 5, 1942 – February 6, 1968
Service recordCarl Joshua Wieneke, of Hardin, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 74
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- June 5, 1942
- Home of record
- Hardin, Illinois (Calhoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 74
- DENNIS RAY WALLINCorporal · February 6, 1968
- EARL WELDON WATKINS JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- TOMMY AUSTIN WIGGINSLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- JAMES LEROY WISE JRSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RODERICK MICHAEL WRIGHTCorporal · Panel 37E, Line 76
From Hardin
- JAMES ARMAND PLUMMERStaff Sergeant · May 5, 1967
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.