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HERBERT F WELTZ JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 17, 1947 – March 25, 1968
Service recordHerbert F Weltz JR, of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Gibsonia, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 46E, Line 25
- JIMMY JOE TESSADRIPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- FLOYD NICKOLAS THOMANSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
- BROADUS ALFRED WHITTPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH WIEDEMANNSpecialist Five · March 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD E BORCHARD JRPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 14
- JOHN MICHAEL CASEYCaptain · Panel 46E, Line 14
- LOUIS MAGIN GARCIACorporal · Panel 46E, Line 16
- JOHN DAVID HARPER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 17
- RICHARD EDWARD HEILSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 17
- DOWARD LEROY JONES JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 46E, Line 19
- MICHAEL JAMES KELLEYSpecialist Five · Panel 46E, Line 19
- PATRICK C MCILROYPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 21
- DAVID THOMAS ORWIG IIISpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 22
- ROBERT DOUGLAS ROBINSONPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 22
- DONALD HAROLD SCHMIDTSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 23
- GILBERT SERRANOPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 23
- JOHN OTIS SHERRILLSecond Lieutenant · Panel 46E, Line 24
- DENNIS KARL SHOWERSSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 24
- RONALD SOCKEYSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 24
- JOSEPH THOMAS TANGARIEPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 24
- FLOYD NICKOLAS THOMANSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 25
- BROADUS ALFRED WHITTPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 25
From Gibsonia
- NEIL EDWARD RILEYPrivate First Class · September 13, 1966
- DAIN VANDERLIN SCOTTLieutenant Commander · August 21, 1967
- CHARLES HILTON DELLINGERSeaman · August 2, 1968
- RICHARD WILLIAM BELLPetty Officer Third Class · October 2, 1969
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.