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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Howard Dennis Weiss.

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HOWARD DENNIS WEISS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 6, 1946 – May 4, 1966

Service record

Howard Dennis Weiss, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 28

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 2 BN 502 INF 101 AVN DIV
Born
March 6, 1946
Home of record
Cleveland Heights, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 28

From Cleveland Heights

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.