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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Lee Weber.

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DENNIS LEE WEBER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

September 15, 1947 – December 9, 1965

Service record

Dennis Lee Weber, of Mechanicsville, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 9, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 6

Position of Panel 4E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
September 15, 1947
Home of record
Mechanicsville, Iowa (Cedar County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 9, 1965
Age
18
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1965; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 6

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.