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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Delbert Ellis Weber.

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DELBERT ELLIS WEBER

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

January 18, 1928 – June 24, 1969

Service record

Delbert Ellis Weber, of Lakeland, Florida, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 24, 1969, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 11

Position of Panel 21W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
Unit (as recorded)
MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 ASLT
Born
January 18, 1928
Home of record
Lakeland, Florida (Polk County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 24, 1969
Age
41
Province
Kien Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 11

From Lakeland

All 28 names from Lakeland →

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.