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DONALD DENNIS WEYKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 8, 1946 – December 5, 1968
Service recordDonald Dennis Weyker, of Marshalltown, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 48
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
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- October 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Marshalltown, Iowa (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 5, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 48
- GUENTER ROBERT THONUESSergeant · December 5, 1968
- JOSEPH RAY THORNTONPrivate · December 5, 1968
- GARY RICHARD BERGPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
- JOE PAUL KLIPFELPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
From Marshalltown
- HARVEY WOODFORD GILBERTPrivate First Class · August 13, 1966
- ROBERT DOUGLAS KINGWarrant Officer 1 · December 4, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES WESTBERGPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
- STANLEY RICHARD SMITHMajor · May 11, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD SLATERSecond Lieutenant · December 15, 1968
- DAVID LYNN RUTGERSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- DARREL GENE BITTNERSergeant · May 8, 1969
- WILLIAM RUSSELL MCKIBBENCaptain · April 25, 1970
- RANDY LEE MASTSergeant · June 5, 1970
- KENNETH WAYNE TUCKERCorporal · February 15, 1971
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.