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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Franklin Lee Weisner.

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FRANKLIN LEE WEISNER

Major · U.S. Army

March 21, 1945 – October 10, 1969

Service record

Franklin Lee Weisner, of Ft Benning, Georgia, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He was lost on October 10, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 17W · Line 61

Position of Panel 17W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
March 21, 1945
Home of record
Ft Benning, Georgia (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of loss
October 10, 1969
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
First reported
Missing in action
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1969; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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From Ft Benning

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.